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A secret society history of the Civil War /

This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old Wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lause, Mark A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prologue. Old World Contours: Revolutionary Politics and the Secret Society Tradition
  • PART I. ALTERNATIVE MEANS
  • 1. The Brotherhood of the Union: George Lippard and the Palestine of Redeemed Labor
  • 2. Universal Democratic Republicans: Hugh Forbes and Transatlantic Antislavery Radicalism
  • Illustrations follow page 50
  • 3. Lone Stars and Golden Circles: The Manifest Destiny of George W.L. Bickley
  • PART II. CHALLENGING POWER
  • 4. Higher Laws: The Fulcrum of African American National Identity5. Decisive Means: Political Violence and National Self-Definition
  • PART III. ENDS
  • 6. The Counterfeit Nation: The KGC, Secession, and the Confederate Experience
  • 7. The Republic Saved: Secret Societies and the Survival of the Union
  • Epilogue. Long Shadows: Lineages of the Secret Society Tradition in America
  • Notes
  • Index