With ballots and bullets : partisanship and violence in the American Civil War /
With Ballots & Bullets reveals disquieting relationships between mass partisanship and violence in the Civil War era. The book provides historical insights on the impact of ordinary people in the loyal states, but it also speaks to the nature of partisan conflict across time. It challenges and a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | With Ballots & Bullets reveals disquieting relationships between mass partisanship and violence in the Civil War era. The book provides historical insights on the impact of ordinary people in the loyal states, but it also speaks to the nature of partisan conflict across time. It challenges and affirms historical and political scholarship with evidence from America's most costly and consequential conflict, a cataclysm that still resounds in our politics today. The book contributes four key insights about mass partisanship in the Civil War era using vast datasets of election returns, individual Union soldier records, census reports and a representative sample of newspapers. Parties mobilized the killing in a fundamentally partisan war, voters were impervious to unprecedented political and military events before, during and after the war, partisanship polarized the war's effects on voters and partisanship profoundly shaped postwar memory. These powerful dynamics arose from interactions between and among leaders and citizens. The Civil War remade the nation and its people. This book shows the violent, dynamic role of mass partisanship in that remaking. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108792585 1108792588 9781108834933 1108834930 |