| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City. By Russell L. Johnson. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. xii, 388 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8232-2269-1.)
A generation ago, scholarship on the American Civil War seemed insulated from broader historiographic trends, prompting Maris A. Vinovskis to ask, "Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War?" (JAH, June 1989). It was a fair question. Civil War historians were concentrating on traditional military and political themes, while the disciples of the new social history generally ignored the war. Since then, scholars have closed the gap from both directions: social historians have produced a long list of home front studies, while military historians have examined the attitudes, motivations, and experiences of ordinary soldiers. Russell L. Johnson's history of Dubuque, Iowa, is a welcome contribution to these scholarly conversations.	1
Dubuque, the nation's eightieth-largest city in 1860, was declining as a regional commercial center and gradually shifting toward manufacturing when the war began. The city had long been a Democratic stronghold, and during the war vocal Peace Democrats, led by an outspoken newspaper editor, threatened to disrupt public order. But the tensions never gave way to violence, and Dubuque always managed to fill its recruiting quotas without resorting to conscription.	. . .

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