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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mathisen, Erik (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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.