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Additional authors

1. Levine, Alan, 1961-
2. Merrill, Thomas W. (Thomas Westneat), 1974-
3. Stoner, James R.

Description

1. vi, 421 pages : 1 illustration; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "The Civil War continues to speak so powerfully to us because it was a constitutional moment in which the meaning and soundness of the regime was put in doubt. In The Political Thought of the Civil War, leading scholars of American political thought take a "deliberative" approach to the war, meaning they engage with the words and deeds of the most thoughtful political actors of the time with respect to questions about the regime, specifically regarding the place of slavery, the tension between morality and constitutionalism, and the potential of the principles of the American regime to build a multiracial, multicultural society. By starting with the actors, and the difficult choices they made in response to specific problems, the contributors to this volume are able to explore the theoretical principles at play in the controversy within their historical context. The essays are divided into three sections that examine, respectively, the practical dilemma to which the war was the response, the difficult decisions Americans made in the face of a collapsing regime, and the consequences of those choices"--

Series statement

1. American political thought

Uniform title

1. American political thought.

Subject

1. United States
2. American Civil War (1861-1865)
3. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes
4. History
5. War > Causes
6. United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
7. Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
8. Politics and government
9. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1869
10. 1857-1877
11. United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861
12. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction : The Civil War as a regime question / Thomas W. Merrill, Alan Levine, and James R. Stoner, Jr. -- Part I. The problem. The later Jefferson and the problem of natural rights / Thomas W. Merrill -- Slavery and the US Supreme Court / Keith E. Whittington -- Antebellum natural rights liberalism / Daniel S. Malachuk -- Scientific racism in antebellum America / Alan Levine -- From Calhoun to secession / James H. Read -- Part II. Hard choices. Lincoln and "the public estimate of the negro" : from anti-amalgamation to antislavery / Diana J. Schaub -- Why did Lincoln go to war? / Steven B. Smith -- The Lincolnian Constitution / Caleb Verbois -- To preserve, protect, and defend : the Emancipation Proclamation / W.B. Allen -- The case of the Confederate Constitution / James R. Stoner, Jr. -- Part III. Pyrrhic Victories? Completing the Constitution : the Reconstruction amendments / Michael Zuckert -- The politics of Reconstruction and the problem of self-government / Philip B. Lyons -- "A school for the moral education of the nation" : Frederick Douglass on the meaning of the Civil War / Peter C. Myers -- The South and American Constitutionalism after the Civil War / Johnathan O'Neill.

Call number

1. JFE 18-9788

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The political thought of the Civil War / edited by Alan Levine, Thomas W. Merrill, and James R. Stoner, Jr.

Publisher

1. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. American political thought
2. American political thought.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1857-1877

Added author

1. Levine, Alan, 1961- editor.
2. Merrill, Thomas W. (Thomas Westneat), 1974- editor.
3. Stoner, James R., editor.

LCCN

1. 2018016379

Other standard identifier

1. 40028446041

ISBN

1. 9780700626694 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 0700626697 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 18-9788