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UNINA9910777606803321 |
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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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979-88-908797-7-6 |
0-8078-7734-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (492 p.) |
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Collana |
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Legislators - Alabama |
Secession - Alabama |
Statesmen - Confederate States of America |
Legislators - United States |
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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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index. |
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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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hypocritical. His personal journey led him through a series of mentors who transformed his political views, and upon moving to frontier Alabama in his twenties, Yancey's penchant for rhet |
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UNINA9910789044803321 |
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Autore |
Faraday Michael <1791-1867.> |
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Titolo |
Lectures on the Forces of Matter [[electronic resource] ] : And Their Relations to Each Other |
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Auckland, : The Floating Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (127 p.) |
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Matter |
Physics |
Science |
Physical Sciences & Mathematics |
Physics - General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Title; Contents; Preface; Lecture I The Force of Gravitation; Lecture II Gravitation Cohesion; Lecture III Cohesion Chemical Affinity; Lecture IV Chemical Affinity Heat; Lecture V Magnetism Electricity; Lecture VI The Correlation of the Physical Forces; Endnotes |
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The pleasure which all derive from the expositions of Faraday is of a somewhat different kind to that produced by any other philosopher whose lectures we have ever attended. It is partially derived from his extreme dexterity as an operator with him we have no chance of apologies for an unsucessful experiment, no hanging fire in the midst of a series of brilliant demonstrations, producing that depressing tendency akin to the pain felt by an audience at a false note from a vocalist... |
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