Uneasy Rests the Masters: Strains from Below in the 1850s -- Getting Right with Slavery: The Drive for Unity -- Waiting for Lincoln: The Election of 1860 -- Verdict Rendered: Lincoln is Elected -- South Carolina Takes the Lead -- Deadlock and a Deepening Crisis -- Secessionist S…
"In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that …
Taking a freakonomics approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even wh…
Marx and Lincoln: an unfinished revolution
by Blackburn, Robin, Lincoln, Abraham, Politiker, USA, Marx, Karl, Theoretiker des Sozialismus, Lincoln, Abraham, Politician, USA, Lincoln, Abraham, Homme politique, Etats-Unis, Marx, Karl, Théoricien du socialisme, Marx, Karl, Theoretician of Socialism
"During the Civil War, many southerners expressed serious opposition to secession and openly entreated their fellow southerners to maintain support for the Union. A number of these unionists actively opposed the Confederacy while remaining within its borders; others fled their h…
"During the Civil War, many southerners expressed serious opposition to secession and openly entreated their fellow southerners to maintain support for the Union. A number of these unionists actively opposed the Confederacy while remaining within its borders; others fled their h…
"During the Civil War, many southerners expressed serious opposition to secession and openly entreated their fellow southerners to maintain support for the Union. A number of these unionists actively opposed the Confederacy while remaining within its borders; others fled their h…
Part I.A mere lapsus: Unionists and conservative dissidents during the Civil War -- The last relicks of barbarism: army, war, and reconstruction -- Presidential Reconstruction: Unionism and the politics of definition -- The premature New South of Governor Robert Patton -- Part I…
Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political, and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic of 1837. The Panic also galvanized reformers, encouraging some to act and other…
