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Liberty and union : the Civil War era and American constitutionalism /

"A unique and ambitious study of "the long Civil War Era"--Encompassing the antebellum debates over slavery and sovereignty, the deadly Civil War they spawned, and the transformative postwar outcomes. Integrating political, military, and social history, it focuses on that era's e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Huebner, Timothy S., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Slavery and sovereignty. Prologue, slavery, sovereignty, and American constitutionalism
  • Slavery, the South, and the North
  • Politics and the proslavery constitutional order, 1846-1857
  • The Path to secession and the outbreak of war, 1858-1861
  • Part II. War and Revolution. The battle joined, 1861-1862
  • The war transformed, 1863-1864
  • Politics and constitutionalism in the wartime Union, 1861-1864
  • Politics and constitutionalism in the wartime Confederacy, 1861-1864
  • Soldiers, civilians, and revolutionary constitutionalism
  • Part III
  • The end and the beginning, 1865-1866
  • Politics and the reconstructed constitutional order, 1867-1876
  • Freedom, the South, and the North
  • Epilogue. Liberty, union, and American constitutionalism.