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Online-Ressource (233 p)
ISBN:
9780252036552
Inhalt:
This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to and the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European Revolutions of 1848. _x000B_Lause traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, including the Knights of the Golden Circle and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. This book shows how these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions and may have played a key part in events such as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860-1861.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue. Old World Contours: Revolutionary Politics and the Secret Society Tradition -- PART I. ALTERNATIVE MEANS -- 1. The Brotherhood of the Union: George Lippard and the Palestine of Redeemed Labor -- 2. Universal Democratic Republicans: Hugh Forbes and Transatlantic Antislavery Radicalism -- Illustrations follow page 50 -- 3. Lone Stars and Golden Circles: The Manifest Destiny of George W. L. Bickley -- PART II. CHALLENGING POWER -- 4. Higher Laws: The Fulcrum of African American National Identity -- 5. Decisive Means: Political Violence and National Self-Definition -- PART III. ENDS -- 6. The Counterfeit Nation: The KGC, Secession, and the Confederate Experience -- 7. The Republic Saved: Secret Societies and the Survival of the Union -- Epilogue. Long Shadows: Lineages of the Secret Society Tradition in America -- Notes -- Index.
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Prologue. Old World Contours: Revolutionary Politics and the Secret Society Tradition""; ""PART I. ALTERNATIVE MEANS""; ""1. The Brotherhood of the Union: George Lippard and the Palestine of Redeemed Labor""; ""2. Universal Democratic Republicans: Hugh Forbes and Transatlantic Antislavery Radicalism""; ""Illustrations follow page 50""; ""3. Lone Stars and Golden Circles: The Manifest Destiny of George W. L. Bickley""; ""PART II. CHALLENGING POWER""
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""4. Higher Laws: The Fulcrum of African American National Identity""""5. Decisive Means: Political Violence and National Self-Definition""; ""PART III. ENDS""; ""6. The Counterfeit Nation: The KGC, Secession, and the Confederate Experience""; ""7. The Republic Saved: Secret Societies and the Survival of the Union""; ""Epilogue. Long Shadows: Lineages of the Secret Society Tradition in America""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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ISBN 9780252093593
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780252036552
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Secret Society History of the Civil War
Sprache:
Englisch
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