Reconfiguring the Union: Civil War Transformations (Studies of the Americas) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349463507 ISBN 13: 9781349463503

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and transnational terms. This volume examines the transformations the Civil War brought to the American Union as a politico-constitutional, social, and economic system. It explores how the war changed the meaning of the Union with regard to the supremacy of the federal government over the states, the right of secession, the rights of citizenship, and the political balance between the union's various sections. It further considers the effect of the war on international and transnational perceptions of the United States. Finally, it considers how historical memory has shaped the legacy of the Civil War in the last 150 years.

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About the Author

Iwan W. Morgan, University College London, UK Philip John Davies, British Library, UK Adam Smith, University College London, UK Richard Carwardine, University of Oxford, UK Erik Mathisen, University of Portsmouth, UK Brian Holden Reid, Kings College London., UK Andrew Heath, University of Sheffield, UK Matthew Shaw, British Library, UK David Gleason, Northumbria University, UK Amanda Foreman, historian, writer, and broadcaster Robert Cook, University of Sussex, UK Jenny Barrett, Edge Hill University, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349463507
• ISBN 13: 9781349463503
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Morgan I., Davies P.