Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation (eBook)

Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War

Mark E. Neely (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
416 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6902-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival.Previous scholars have examined wartime challenges to civil liberties and questions of presidential power, but Neely argues that the constitutional conflict extended to the largest questions of national existence. Drawing on judicial opinions, presidential state papers, and political pamphlets spiced with the everyday immediacy of the partisan press, Neely reveals how judges, lawyers, editors, politicians, and government officials, both North and South, used their constitutions to fight the war and save, or create, their nation. Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation illuminates how the U.S. Constitution not only survived its greatest test but emerged stronger after the war. That this happened at a time when the nation's very existence was threatened, Neely argues, speaks ultimately to the wisdom of the Union leadership, notably President Lincoln and his vision of the American nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: constitutional conflict in the american civil war • testing the US constitution • the confederate constitution • us constitution and the struggle for national survival • using the constitution to save the nation
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6902-3 / 0807869023
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6902-4 / 9780807869024