Father Abraham [[electronic resource] ] : Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery / / Richard Striner
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| Autore: |
Striner Richard <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Father Abraham [[electronic resource] ] : Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery / / Richard Striner
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 308 p. : ill., ports |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Lincoln and slavery : the problem -- Lincoln and free soil, 1854-1858 -- Lincoln and slavery : containment, 1859-1861 -- Lincoln and emancipation, 1861-1862 -- Lincoln and the war to the death, 1863 -- Lincoln and the worst-case future, 1864 -- Lincoln and the best-case future, 1864-1865. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Father Abraham |
| ISBN: | 1-280-53311-0 |
| 1-4294-0356-X | |
| 0-19-972856-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791207503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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