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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452082003321

Autore

Weber Jennifer L. <1962->

Titolo

Copperheads [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of Lincoln's opponents in the North / / Jennifer L. Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-84659-3

0-19-804188-8

1-4294-2044-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/12

Soggetti

Copperhead movement

Dissenters - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Protest movements

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. In the Shadows; 2. The Gathering Storm; 3. When Will This Cruel War Be Over?; 4. The Battle Behind the Lines; 5. The Summer of Lincoln's Discontent; 6. The Rise and Fall of the Copperheads; 7. "Faction in Civil War Is Unmitigated Treason"; 8. Defeated; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage, the Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence, such as the New York City draft riots. And at the heart of all this turmoil stood Northern anti-war Democrats, nicknamed ""Copperheads."". Now, Jennifer L. Weber offers the first full-length portrait of this powerful faction to appear in almost half a century. Weber reveals how the Copperheads came perilously close to defeating Lincoln and ending the war in the South's favor



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139030503321

Titolo

The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-118-56167-8

1-118-56176-7

1-299-44889-5

1-118-56160-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Ancient world : comparative histories

Altri autori (Persone)

ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->

RaaflaubKurt A

WagnerPeter <1956->

Disciplina

320.938/5

Soggetti

Democracy - Greece - History - To 1500

City-states - Greece - History - To 1500

Social change - Greece - History - To 1500

Citizenship - Greece - History - To 1500

Politics and culture - Greece - History - To 1500

Arts - Political aspects - Greece - History - To 1500

Civilization - Greek influences

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C

Greece Social conditions To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner -- Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective -- Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations / Johann P. Arnason -- Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective / Peter Wagner -- Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig -- Democracy and Dissent :



The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli -- Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein -- Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis -- Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot -- Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner.

Sommario/riassunto

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks' path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis -