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from: Kent State University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
EAN: 9780873385657
ISBN: 0873385659
Label: Kent State University Press
Manufacturer: Kent State University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 231
Publication Date: 1997-06
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Sales Rank: 2117208
Studio: Kent State University Press
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In Union and Emancipation, seven leading historians offer new perspectives on the issues of race and politics in American Society from the antebellum era to the aftermath of Reconstruction. The authors, all trained by Richard H. Sewell at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, address two major themes: the politics of sectional conflict prior to the Civil War, illuminated through ideological and institutional inquiry; and the central importance of race, slavery, and emancipation in shaping American political culture and social memory. Contributors consider the national culture, the centrality of the nation-state in understanding American history, the place of race in redefining what it meant to be an American, the way the Civil War helped to redefine the nature of the 'political, ' and of 'citizenship, ' and the significance of political parties through the ideas and interests that motivate them. The collection, with its dual themes of union and emancipation, will provoke debate, offer insight, and challenge recent interpretations of this turbulent period in American history.
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