Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1988
ISBN 10: 0155414461 ISBN 13: 9780155414464
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Language: English
Published by Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1975., 1975
ISBN 10: 0837179602 ISBN 13: 9780837179605
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1947
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); burgundy cloth-covered boards with blocking in gilt and titling in burgundy on spine; 308pp; colorful frontispiece, with black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Lacking dustwrapper. Inked ownership of J. Shelton Horsley III to front endpaper. Spine-sunned, with light shelf-wear, and light soil to covers and edges of textblock; Very Good. Contributions by Frederick C. Lincoln, Charles E. Wheeler, Richard L. Parks, Alan G. Baker, and others. [89661].