Freedom, Union, and Power : Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War.
Title:
Freedom, Union, and Power : Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War.
Author:
Green, Michael.
ISBN:
9780823247899
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (418 pages)
Series:
The North's Civil War
Contents:
Freedom, Union, and Power -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Freedom, Union, and Power: The Civil War Republican Party -- Chapter Two: Free Labor, Freed Labor, and Free Capital -- Chapter Three: The Great Secession Winter and the Politics of Power and Responsibility -- Chapter Four: Lincoln's Warring Cabinet: Many Secretaries, One Ideology -- Chapter Five: The Republicans and Slavery -- Chapter Six: Law and Order: Republicans, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution -- Chapter Seven: The Paradox of Power: Republicans and the Military -- Chapter Eight: The Republican Party, the Union Party, and Lincoln's Reelection -- Chapter Nine: Reforming and Remaking the Nation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Freedom, Union, and Power analyzes the beliefs of the Republican Party during the Civil War, how those beliefs changed, and what those changes foreshadowed for the future. The party's pre-war ideology of free soil, free labor, free menchanged with the Republican ascent to power in the White House. With Lincoln's election, Republicans faced something new-responsibility for the government.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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