The devil's own work : the Civil War draft riots and the fight to reconstruct America / Barnet Schec...
The devil's own work : the Civil War draft riots and the fight to reconstruct America / Barnet Schec...
The devil's own work : the Civil War draft riots and the fight to reconstruct America / Barnet Schecter.
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New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed the the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N974.7103/6
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English
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xiii, 434 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The rebel horde invades Pennsylvania -- Battle lines are drawn: race, class & religion -- Horace Greeley and the birth of the Republican Party -- Fernando Wood, the Southern mayor of New York -- Slavery must die that the nation might live -- Emancipation -- New York City Draft Riots -- A crusade aga...
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New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed the the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2005.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2005.
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"As Barnet Schecter dramatically shows in The Devil's Own Work, the cataclysm in New York was anything but an isolated incident; rather, it was a microcosm, within the boarders of the supposedly loyal northern states, of the larger Civil War between the North and South. The riots erupted over the same polarizing issues - of slavery versus freedom f...
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The devil's own work : the Civil War draft riots and the fight to reconstruct America / Barnet Schecter.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-422) and index.
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N974.7103/6
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74VKK6A6mKDA
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9780802714398
0802714390 (hardcover)
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974.7103
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991021789039702626
