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The Cacophony of Politics : Northern Democrats and the American Civil War.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Nation Divided SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813946573
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Cacophony of PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 324.273609034
LOC classification:
  • JK2260 .G355 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Key Episodes -- Introduction -- I. Becoming an Organized Party -- 1. A Political Collapse -- 2. Stumbling into War -- 3. The Opposition's War -- II. Politics in Communities -- Politics in the Streets -- 4. Politics Is Personal/Politics Is Local -- 5. Politics in the Streets -- III. An Opposition Party -- 6. An Organized War, a Disorganized Party? -- 7. Bracing for an Electoral Clash -- 8. 1864 -- 9. Peace and an Uncertain Future -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War--and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture--confounded the Democrats' self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the central issue of slavery.A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Key Episodes -- Introduction -- I. Becoming an Organized Party -- 1. A Political Collapse -- 2. Stumbling into War -- 3. The Opposition's War -- II. Politics in Communities -- Politics in the Streets -- 4. Politics Is Personal/Politics Is Local -- 5. Politics in the Streets -- III. An Opposition Party -- 6. An Organized War, a Disorganized Party? -- 7. Bracing for an Electoral Clash -- 8. 1864 -- 9. Peace and an Uncertain Future -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War--and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture--confounded the Democrats' self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the central issue of slavery.A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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