Silbey Joel Editor (12 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Fine. Light rubbing on the bottom edges. Otherwise in great condition.

Greenwood Press first edition (per Greenwood's "First published" statement upon copyright page). xx, 348 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket. Dark mustard cloth. Text block edges foxed; foxing to several initial and rear leaves but with interior text leaves mostly clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Editor's Introduction, and Index. Five sections feature eighteen essays which were first published in the academic journal "Civil War History." ***** [PART I. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL WAR.] "Civil War Synthesis in American Political History" by Joel H. Silbey. "Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions" by Eric Foner. "Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877: A Critical Overview of Recent Trends and Interpretations" by Richard O. Curry. "John Brown and His Judges: A Critique of the Historical Literature" by Stephen B. Oates. [PART II. POLITICS AT THE GRASS ROOTS: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS.] "Northern Democratic Party and the Congressional Elections of 1858" by David E. Meerse. "Ethnic Voter and the First Lincoln Election" by Robert P. Swierenga. "Rejected Republican Incumbents in the 1866 Congressional Nominating Conventions: A Study in Reconstruction Politics" by Lawrence N. Powell. "Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867" by Michael Les Benedict. "Republicans and Black Suffrage in New York State: The Grass Roots Response" by Phyllis Frances Field. [PART III. "SPIRIT OF PARTY": CONGRESS AND ROLL CALL VOTING.] "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill" by Gerald W. Wolff. "Unconscious "Spirit of Party" in the Confederate Congress" by Richard E. Beringer. "Bloc and Party in the United States Senate: 1861-1863" by Alan G. Bogue. "Who Were the Senate Radicals?" by Edward L. Gambill. "'Radical' Political and Economic Policies: The Senate, 1873-1877" by Glenn M. Linden. [PART IV. PATRONAGE, RELIGION, AND RACE: THE ETHNORELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF POLITICS.] "Political Patronage and Ethnic Groups: Foreign-born in the United States Customhouse Service, 1821-1861" by Leonard Tabachnik. "Religious and Occupational Roots of Party Identification: Illinois and Indiana in the 1870's" by Richard Jensen. "Negroes in the First and Second Reconstructions of the South" by August Meier. [PART V. IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS.] "Slavery and the Slave Power: A Crucial Distinction" by Larry Gara. "William Lloyd Garrison and Antislavery Unity: A Reappraisal" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. "Aims and Impact of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1840-1860" by James B. Stewart. ISBN 0837179602.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVOLUME 11 (TWO) ONLY Very good in very good dust jacket. Later printing.

paperback. Condition: As New. 272 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong unaged paper; binding tight; wrapper clean without discernible wear.

Paperback. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Some marks on the first leaf. Slight wear at the extremities. Overall a nice clean & Street copy. 384 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Reprints the texts of 17 political pamphlets with a lengthy introductory essay (repeated in each volume); the editor argues these tracts, unlike today's platforms, discussed real issues that were important to the citizens of the day, and are thus illustrative of that society at large. Complete in two volumes, paperbacks, as pictured. INSCRIBED on the first page of volume one by the editor to a colleague and his wife. Light wear, near fine. Texts clean; xxiv, [2], 284; xxiv, [2], 272 pages. Size: 6¼" by 9¼". Inscribed by the Editor. Set.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFine in fine dust jackets. 3 volume complete. *.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 6"x9". Red cloth with blue titles on white printed labels & gray endpapers; An as new copy; 544 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Volume one only of a 10 volume set (in 23 books) on the history & workings of the US Congress; complete in itself, containing 22 essays mostly from scholarly journals on the early years of Congress, roughly 1778-1804. Stout hardcover in full red cloth blocked in white, blue titling, as pictured. Light wear; no jacket as issued. Text clean; xvii, [2], 544 pages; figures, tables, indexes, list of contents of the other volumes in the series. Size: Large Octavo. Set.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 406 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 402 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.