No party now : politics in the Civil War North / Adam I.P. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Adam I. P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties--United States.

Political parties.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 mo

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Concepts of Party and Nation before the Civil War; 2 The Patriotic Imperative; 3 The Emancipation Proclamation and the Party System; 4 The Union Leagues and the Emergence of Antiparty Nationalism; 5 The Army, Loyalty, and Dissent; 6 Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Union Party; 7 Emancipation and Antiparty Nationalism in the 1864 Election Campaign; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-257) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029334-9

0-19-534596-7

1-280-84592-9

1-4294-5924-7

OCLC:

781291317