With ballots and bullets : partisanship and violence in the American Civil War / Nathan P. Kalmoe, Louisiana State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalmoe, Nathan P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opposition (Political science)--United States--History--19th century.

Opposition (Political science).

Party affiliation--United States--History--19th century.

Party affiliation.

Political culture--United States--History--19th century.

Political culture.

History.

Political psychology.

Political participation.

United States.

Political participation--United States--History--19th century.

Political psychology--United States--History--19th century.

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

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

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

Politics and government.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Partisanship and violence in the American Civil War

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"With Ballots & Bullets reveals disquieting relationships between mass partisanship and violence in the Civil War era. The book provides historical insights on the impact of ordinary people in the loyal states, but it also speaks to the nature of partisan conflict across time. It challenges and affirms historical and political scholarship with evidence from America's most costly and consequential conflict, a cataclysm that still resounds in our politics today. The book contributes four key insights about mass partisanship in the Civil War era using vast datasets of election returns, individual Union soldier records, Census reports, and a representative sample of newspapers: 1) parties mobilized the killing in a fundamentally partisan war, 2) voters were impervious to unprecedented political and military events before, during, and after the war, 3) partisanship polarized the war's effects on voters, and 4) partisanship profoundly shaped post-war memory. These powerful dynamics arose from interactions between and among leaders & citizens. The Civil War remade the nation and its people. This book shows the violent, dynamic role of mass partisanship in that remaking"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Introduction to Partisan Warfare

2. The Roots of Partisan Civil War: Continuity across Political Eras

pt. I MOBILIZING PARTISAN WARFARE

3. The Press Goes to War: Partisan Advocacy & Resistance

4. Filling the Ranks: Partisan Opinion Leadership in Violent Action

pt. II BALLOTS IN A PARTISAN CIVIL WAR

5. Election News during Wartime: Loyalty, Racism, Retrospection, & Violence

6. Weighing the Dead: Partisan Reasoning at the Ballot Box

7. Partisan Stability & the Myth of Atlanta: The Electoral Inconsequence of Wartime Events

pt. III LEGACIES OF PARTISAN VIOLENCE

8. Ghosts of the Civil War: Voting, Honoring, & Organizing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kalmoe, Nathan P. With ballots and bullets

ISBN:

9781108792585

1108792588

9781108834933

1108834930

OCLC:

1137192697