02820nam 22006014a 450 991046559250332120200520144314.00-19-029334-90-19-534596-71-280-84592-91-4294-5924-7(CKB)2560000000294400(EBL)431276(OCoLC)781291317(SSID)ssj0000211593(PQKBManifestationID)11201935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211593(PQKBWorkID)10311370(PQKB)10051905(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072595(MiAaPQ)EBC431276(Au-PeEL)EBL431276(CaPaEBR)ebr10160578(CaONFJC)MIL84592(EXLCZ)99256000000029440020051118d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNo party now[electronic resource] politics in the Civil War North /Adam I.P. SmithOxford ;New York Oxford20061 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-518865-9 0-19-986834-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-257) and index.Contents; Introduction; 1 Concepts of Party and Nation before the Civil War; 2 The Patriotic Imperative; 3 The Emancipation Proclamation and the Party System; 4 The Union Leagues and the Emergence of Antiparty Nationalism; 5 The Army, Loyalty, and Dissent; 6 Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Union Party; 7 Emancipation and Antiparty Nationalism in the 1864 Election Campaign; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; YDuring the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis. In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing view that political processes in the North somehow helped the Union be more stable and effective in the war. Instead, Smith argues, early efforts to suspend party politics collapsed in the face of divisions over slavery and the purpose of the war. At the same time, new contexts for political moPolitical partiesUnited StatesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Electronic books.Political parties973.7Smith Adam I. P854522MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465592503321No party now1908240UNINA