America has lost its moral authority to huge corporate interests, say Secession movement leaders. This remarkable dossier shows how a seemingly wild political idea continues to grow and create debate on the US' unsustainable, ungovernable and unfixable empire.
" "Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion - often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause - have led him to suggest that ...
18–19, 1860, in LeRoy P. Graf and Ralph W. Haskins, eds., The Papers of Andrew Johnson, 17 vols., 1860–1861 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976), 4:5, 35; William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, eds., ...
Focusing primarily on South Carolina, Anderson carefully revisits theory on institutional analysis of political development to expose what caused secession in the United States.
"A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire.
—Kingsbury, Gilbert D. Papers. —Maverick family. Papers. —Reagan, John Henniger. Papers. —Roberts, Oran Milo. Papers. ... Burnham, W. Dean. Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University 224 Bibliography.
In their accounts of past secessions and current secessionist movements, the contributors to this volume focus on the following four components: the nature and source of secessionist grievances, the ideologies and techniques of secessionist ...
The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of topics related to secession, separatism, and the nationalist passions that inflame such conflicts.
... 192–93, 346n2 plantation mistresses, 46,63–68, 127, 144, 146–47, 330n52, 330n55 planter elite, 136–39 Elliott, Ralph, 25–26 Elliott, William, 18–19, 25, 27, 56–57, 105 Ellis, John W., 236–37, 302–3 Ellis, N. B., 220 Ellis, Powhatan, ...
This diligent study discusses the reaction of five border states to the secession movement of 1860-1861--Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pensylvania, and New York.
Crisis of Fear was awarded the Allan Nevins History Prize by the Society of American Historians.