This distracted and anarchical people : 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
• 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.: 9910808537603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: North's Civil War (FUP)