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Autore: | Syrett John <1942-> |
Titolo: | The Civil War Confiscation Acts : failing to reconstruct the South / / John Syrett |
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 |
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.: | 9910823828603321 |
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