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Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states, rather than separatists, determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatist movements. Variations in the external security environment, Butt argues, influenced the leaders of the Ottoman Empire to use peaceful concessions...
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Lexile measure
1440L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the host of Radio Free Vermont--'underground, underpowered, and underfoot'--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
x, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy. Drawing from speeches, cartoons, editorials, letters, and diaries,...
14) Bushwick
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Lucy steps off the subway, she walks into an utter bloodbath on the streets of Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. Texas is attempting to secede from the Union, and militia forces have descended upon New York City to claim it as an East Coast base of operations and negotiation tool. Faced with a flurry of whizzing bullets and total destruction around every corner, Lucy takes shelter in the basement with Stupe, a burly war veteran.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two decades into the 21st century, the US is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative idealists, and Republican and Democratic representatives all have one thing in common: each believes their distinct cultures and liberties are being threatened by an escalating violent opposition....