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A Secret Society History of the Civil War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252093593
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Secret Society History of the Civil WarDDC classification:
  • 973.7
LOC classification:
  • E458.8
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue. Old World Contours: Revolutionary Politics and the Secret Society Tradition -- PART I. ALTERNATIVE MEANS -- 1. The Brotherhood of the Union: George Lippard and the Palestine of Redeemed Labor -- 2. Universal Democratic Republicans: Hugh Forbes and Transatlantic Antislavery Radicalism -- Illustrations follow page 50 -- 3. Lone Stars and Golden Circles: The Manifest Destiny of George W. L. Bickley -- PART II. CHALLENGING POWER -- 4. Higher Laws: The Fulcrum of African American National Identity -- 5. Decisive Means: Political Violence and National Self-Definition -- PART III. ENDS -- 6. The Counterfeit Nation: The KGC, Secession, and the Confederate Experience -- 7. The Republic Saved: Secret Societies and the Survival of the Union -- Epilogue. Long Shadows: Lineages of the Secret Society Tradition in America -- Notes -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue. Old World Contours: Revolutionary Politics and the Secret Society Tradition -- PART I. ALTERNATIVE MEANS -- 1. The Brotherhood of the Union: George Lippard and the Palestine of Redeemed Labor -- 2. Universal Democratic Republicans: Hugh Forbes and Transatlantic Antislavery Radicalism -- Illustrations follow page 50 -- 3. Lone Stars and Golden Circles: The Manifest Destiny of George W. L. Bickley -- PART II. CHALLENGING POWER -- 4. Higher Laws: The Fulcrum of African American National Identity -- 5. Decisive Means: Political Violence and National Self-Definition -- PART III. ENDS -- 6. The Counterfeit Nation: The KGC, Secession, and the Confederate Experience -- 7. The Republic Saved: Secret Societies and the Survival of the Union -- Epilogue. Long Shadows: Lineages of the Secret Society Tradition in America -- Notes -- Index.

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