The Civil War Confiscation Acts [[electronic resource] ] : failing to reconstruct the South / / John Syrett
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| Autore: |
Syrett John <1942->
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| Titolo: |
The Civil War Confiscation Acts [[electronic resource] ] : failing to reconstruct the South / / John Syrett
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 282 p. ) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/14 |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Confiscations and contributions |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The First Confiscation Act -- The Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents -- The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result -- Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates -- Early military confiscation -- Rules of war and later military confiscation -- The Treasury's part in confiscation -- The politics of confiscation -- Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation -- Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures -- Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This is an account of two significant laws passed during the US Civil War, The Confiscation Acts (1861-62). It examines the political contexts, especially the debates in Congress, and how the failure of the Confiscation Acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction afterwards. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Civil War Confiscation Acts |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-4085-1 |
| 0-8232-4758-9 | |
| 0-8232-2491-0 | |
| 1-4294-7887-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451611703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Reconstructing America (Series) ; ; no. 10.