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Secession as an international phenomenon : from America's Civil War to contemporary separatist movements /

About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.; As the 150th annivers...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The problem of secession. "The morality of secession" / Christopher Wellman
  • "Secession and civil war" / David Armitage
  • "Lincoln, the Constitution, and secession" / Peter Radan
  • "Ethics of secession and political mobilization in Quebec" / Margaret Moore
  • The case of the American South. "Lincoln, the collapse of deep South moderation, and the triumph of secession : a South Carolina congressman's moment of truth" / Charles B. Dew
  • "Proslavery calculations and the value of Southern disunion" / Robert E. Bonner
  • "'How a free people conduct a long war' : sustaining opposition to secession in the American Civil War" / Susan-Mary Grant
  • "Secessionists in an age of secession : the slave South in transatlantic perspective" / Paul Quigley
  • "The origins of the antimodern South : romantic nationalism and the secession movement in the American South" / Frank Towers
  • Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico. "Texas and the spread of that troublesome secessionist spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin" / Andrés Reséndez
  • "The brief, glorious history of the Yucatecan Republic : secession and violence in southeast Mexico, 1836-1848" / Terry Rugeley
  • European separatism. "Secessionist conflicts in Europe" / Bruno Coppieters
  • "By the force of arms : violence and morality in secessionist conflict" / Aleksandar Pavković
  • "Structure, agency, and secessionism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states" / Paul Kubicek
  • "'Our cause was foredoomed to failure' : secession in Germany and the United States" / Stefan Zahlmann
  • The Middle East, Asia, and Africa. "Common sense, or, A step pregnant with enormous consequences : some thoughts on the possible secession of Iraqi Kurdistan" / Peter Sluglett
  • "Nationalism, separatism, and neoliberal globalism : a review of Africa and the quest for self-determination since the 1940s" / Raphael Chijioke Njoku
  • "Did Abraham Lincoln oppose Taiwan's secession from China?" / Alan M. Wachman.