No Party Now
Politics in the Civil War North
During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis.In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing view that political processes in the North somehow helped the Union be more stable and effective in the war. Instead, Smith argues, early efforts to suspend party politics collapsed in the face of divisions over slavery and the purpose of the war. At the same time, new contexts for political mobilization, such as the army and the avowedly non-pa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-534596-4
- EAN: 9780195345964
- Produktnummer: 13932114
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'521 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 halftones
Über den Autor
Adam I. P. Smith is a Lecturer in American History at University College London.
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