Andreas Niedermayer

A Southern Perspective on Secession

The Past and Present Impact of States Rights on American Culture

Buch

The secession of the southern states on the eve of the Civil War in 1861 was the most dramatic manifestation of the states rights ideology and had its roots in the most conservative interpretation of the American Union as originally envisioned by the Founding Fathers. The southern states recurred to states rights to pre-empt what they believed to be an imminent revolution within the American Union that would leave the southern section at the mercy of radical abolitionists who had just won the presidency for their candidate by an entirely sectional vote. The legal dimension of secession remains a highly controversial subject even to this day.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-639-84026-1
EAN: 9783639840261
Produktnummer: 37601912
Verlag: AV Akademikerverlag
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.2 cm 316 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 316

Über den Autor

MMag. Andreas Niedermayer was born on 11 January 1984 in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia. He is a graduate from the University of Klagenfurt (2008, Master of Arts) and the University of Linz (2009, Master of Laws). He runs his own language school in the Carinthian town of St. Veit/Glan and works as a self-employed English tutor and translator.