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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lause, Mark A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
Temas:
1800-1899
Secret societies > United States > History > 19th century.
Secret societies > Influence > History > 19th century.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History > 19th century.
Sociétés secrètes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociétés secrètes > Influence > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Résistance au gouvernement > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Government, Resistance to
Politics and government
Secret societies
Secret societies > Influence
Societies
War > Underground movements
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Societies, etc.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Underground movements.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1861-1865.
United States
Electronic book.
History
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

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