Neely, Mark E., Jr.

Lincoln and the Democrats

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains the behavior of a two-party system during war - emphasizing the Democrats' role in the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Essential Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781107637634
• ISBN-10: 1107637635
• Artikelnr.: 47592419

Autorenporträt

Mark E. Neely, Jr is Emeritus Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in political and constitutional history. His book, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberty (1992), won the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beyond politics: how the North won the Civil War
2. The elections of 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the invention of the Democratic Party myth
3. The problem of a loyal opposition
4. The elusive constitutionalism of the Democratic Party
5. Lincoln, the Constitution, and the birth of human rights.