The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America /
Mathisen tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As the author demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Civil War America (Series)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A government without citizens
- The rise and fall of a slaveholder's republic
- Schools of citizenship
- Defining loyalty in an age of emancipation
- Loyalty under fire
- It looks much like abandoned land.