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Reconfiguring the Union: Civil War Transformations (Studies of the Americas)
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Hardcover. This volume explores some of the critical reconfigurations of the Union as wrought by the Civil War and offer insights into public memory of what the conflict signified. Editor(s): Morgan, Iwan W.; Davies, Philip John. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and transnational terms. This volume examines the transformations the Civil War brought to the American Union as a politico-constitutional, social, and economic system. It explores how the war changed the meaning of the Union with regard to the supremacy of the federal government over the states, the right of secession, ... Read more
From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and transnational terms. This volume examines the transformations the Civil War brought to the American Union as a politico-constitutional, social, and economic system. It explores how the war changed the meaning of the Union with regard to the supremacy of the federal government over the states, the right of secession, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the Americas
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137336477
SKU
V9781137336477
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Iwan W. Morgan, University College London, UK Philip John Davies, British Library, UK Adam Smith, University College London, UK Richard Carwardine, University of Oxford, UK Erik Mathisen, University of Portsmouth, UK Brian Holden Reid, Kings College London., UK Andrew Heath, University of Sheffield, UK Matthew Shaw, British Library, UK David Gleason, Northumbria University, UK Amanda Foreman, historian, writer, and ... Read more
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