The Scorpion's Sting

Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

James Oakes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2015
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35121-7 (ISBN)

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A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction

The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution would die. The image opens a fresh perspective on antislavery and the coming of the Civil War, brilliantly explored here by one of our greatest historians of the period.

James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 208 mm
Gewicht	264 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-393-35121-1 / 0393351211
ISBN-13	978-0-393-35121-7 / 9780393351217
Zustand	Neuware