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  • The Man Behind the Cane

    Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War

    by Paul Quigley ...
    A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War. In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the US Capitol, defending his family's honor and the rights of slaveholders. In beating Sumner unconscious, Brooks fueled a nationwide clash over slavery ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Shifting Grounds

    Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865

    by Paul Quigley ...
    Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet. The conflict over slavery that led to the Civil War forced them to confront the difficult problems of nationalism. What made a nation a nation? Could an individual or a group change nationality at will? What were the rights and responsibilities of national citizenship? Why should nations exist at all? ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Shifting Grounds

    Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865

    by Paul Quigley ...
    Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet. The conflict over slavery that led to the Civil War forced them to confront the difficult problems of nationalism. What made a nation a nation? Could an individual or a group change nationality at will? What were the rights and responsibilities of national citizenship? Why should nations exist at all? ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    The Man Behind the Cane

    Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War

    by Paul Quigley ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 59 min

    In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the United States Capitol, defending his family's honor and the rights of slaveholders. In beating Sumner unconscious, Brooks fueled a nationwide clash over slavery that ended in civil war.Southern historian Paul Quigley brings Brooks to life more vividly than ever, revealing how his ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship

    Edited by Paul D. Quigley ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from prominent lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to enslaved women, from black firemen in southern cities to Confederate émigrés in Latin America—The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship offers a wide-ranging exploration of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Reconciliation after Civil Wars

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Quigley, James Hawdon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together experts on civil wars around the modern world – the United States, Spain, Rwanda, Colombia, Russia, and more - this volume provides comparative and transnational analysis of the challenges that arise ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    by Alan M. Wachman, Aleksandar Pavkovic, Andrés Reséndez, Bruno Coppieters, Charles B. Dew, Christopher Wellman, David Armitage, Frank Towers, Margaret Moore, Paul Kubicek, Paul Quigley, Peter Radan, Peter Sluglett, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Robert Bonner, Stefan Zahlmann, Susan-Mary Grant, Terry Rugeley ...
    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Demise of Slavery in the United States

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Series Book 14 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the ... Read more

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  • So Conceived and So Dedicated

    Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North

    by Lorien Foote, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai ...
    "Outstanding essays" exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining "intellectuals" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college ... Read more

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  • Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

    Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World

    by James M. McPherson ...
    From Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson comes a brilliant and passionate examination of nationalism in today's world, and its effects on the stability of the world's countries, big and small.Since the end of the Cold War, nationalism has re-emerged as one of the most powerful forces in the modern world. Students of nationalism have analyzed two principal categories of this phenomenon. Ethnic ... Read more

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  • Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

    by Eric Foner ...
    Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats land and labor after the war. Taken together, ... Read more

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  • Redeeming the Great Emancipator

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series Book 15 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. In a vigorous defense of America’s sixteenth president, award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo refutes ... Read more

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