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Titolo: | This distracted and anarchical people [[electronic resource] ] : new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North / / edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.7 |
Soggetto geografico: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
United States Politics and government 1861-1865 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | SlapAndrew L SmithMichael Thomas <1970-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North / Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith -- "A press that speaks its opinions frankly and openly and fearlessly": the contentious relationship between the Democratic press and the party in the antebellum North / Matthew Isham -- Abraham Lincoln, manhood, and nineteenth-century American political culture / Michael Thomas Smith -- Damnable treason or party organs? democratic secret societies in Pennsylvania / Robert M. Sandow -- Copperheads in Connecticut: a peace movement that imperiled the union / Matthew Warshauer -- "All manner of schemes and rascalities": the politics of promotion in the Union Army / Timothy J. Orr -- "For my part I dont care who is elected president": the Union Army and the elections of 1864 / Jonathan W. White -- New perspectives in Civil War ethnic history and their implications for twenty-first-century scholarship / Christian B. Keller -- The black flag and Confederate soldiers: total war from the bottom up? / Michael J. Bennett -- Liberia and the U.S. Civil War / Karen Fisher Younger -- "No regular marriage": African American veterans and marriage practices after emancipation / Andrew L. Slap -- "She is a member of the 23rd": Lucy Nichols and the community of the Civil War regiment / Barbara A. Gannon. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The essays in this book range widely throughout the history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to re-examine old theories and discover new aspects of America's greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today as they were a century and a half ago. |
Titolo autorizzato: | This distracted and anarchical people |
ISBN: | 0-8232-4569-1 |
0-8232-5266-3 | |
0-8232-5028-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463279903321 |
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