Secession as an international phenomenon [[electronic resource] ] : from America's Civil War to contemporary separatist movements / / edited by Don H. Doyle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458564403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-89209-6; 9786612892097; 0-8203-3737-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DoyleDon Harrison <1946->
• Disciplina: 341.26
• Soggetti: Separatist movements - History; Secession - History; Secession - Southern States; Nationalism - History; World politics - 19th century; World politics - 20th century; World politics - 21st century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The problem of secession -- The morality of secession / Christopher Wellman -- Secession and civil war / David Armitage -- Lincoln, the Constitution, and secession / Peter Radan -- Ethics of secession and political mobilization in Quebec / Margaret Moore -- pt. 2. The case of the American South -- Lincoln, the collapse of deep South moderation, and the triumph of secession : a South Carolina congressman's moment of truth / Charles B. Dew -- Proslavery calculations and the value of Southern disunion / Robert E. Bonner -- How a free people conduct a long war : sustaining opposition to secession in the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- Secessionists in an age of secession : the slave South in transatlantic perspective / Paul Quigley -- The origins of the antimodern South : ; romantic nationalism and the secession movement in the American South / Frank Towers -- pt. 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico -- Texas and the spread of that troublesome secessionist spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin / Andres Resendez -- The brief, glorious history of the Yucatecan Republic : secession and violence in southeast Mexico, 1836-1848 / Terry Rugeley -- pt. 4. European separatism -- Secessionist conflicts in Europe / Bruno Coppieters -- By the force of arms : violence and morality in secessionist conflict / Aleksandar Pavkovic -- Structure, agency, and secessionism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states / Paul Kubicek -- "Our cause was foredoomed to failure" : secession in Germany and the United States / Stefan Zahlmann -- pt. 5. The Middle East, Asia, Africa -- Common sense, or, A step pregnant with enormous consequences : some thoughts on the possible secession of Iraqi Kurdistan / Peter Sluglett -- Nationalism, separatism, and neoliberal globalism : a review of Africa and the quest for self-determination since the 1940's / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- Did Abraham Lincoln oppose Taiwan's secession from China? / Alan M. Wachman.