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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469636344 |