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  • Deserter Country

    Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians

    A "balanced, compelling" study of one rural region in the North where war resistance flourished ( Civil War Times).During the Civil War, there were explosions of resistance to the war throughout the Union—from the deadly draft riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert M. Sandow explores one of these least known "inner civil wars": the widespread, ... En savoir plus

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  • Deserter Country

    Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians

    Collections series The North's Civil War
    During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert Sandow explores one of these least known "inner civil wars", the widespread, sometimes violent opposition in the Appalachian lumber country of Pennsylvania.Sparsely settled, these mountains were home ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Contested Loyalty

    Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North

    Collections series The North's Civil War
    Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important concept…but ... En savoir plus

    $87.99 CAD

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  • America Aflame

    How the Civil War Created a Nation

    In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the firstmajor new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson'sBattle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the waras a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatestfailure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelicalreligion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln

    The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865

    Collections series The American Presidents
    America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War.Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The War That Forged a Nation

    Why the Civil War Still Matters

    More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Scorpion's Sting

    Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

    par James Oakes ...
    A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • President Lincoln

    In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's Founders, Lincoln struggled to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Well-Regulated Militia : The Founding Fathers And The Origins Of Gun Control In America

    par Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Lincoln's Code

    The Laws of War in American History

    This acclaimed, award-winning book is a “sweeping history” (The New York Times Book Review) of the code of laws of war for American armies, set forth by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War.In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Copperheads : The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North

    The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North

    If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage the Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge spurred secret plots against the Union and triggered widespread violence such as the New York City draft riots. And at the heart of all this turmoil stood Northern anti-war Democrats nicknamed "Copperheads." Now Jennifer L. Weber offers the first full ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Whiskey Rebellion

    Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

    When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $18.39 CAD Maintenant $15.99 CAD