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Autore |
Walther Eric H. <1960-> |
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Titolo |
William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War [[electronic resource] /] / Eric H. Walther |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (492 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Legislators - Alabama |
Secession - Alabama |
Statesmen - Confederate States of America |
Legislators - United States |
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Alabama Politics and government To 1865 |
Confederate States of America Politics and government |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy. |
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IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and |
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