Bøger af J. Matthew Gallman
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- Northern Democrats and the American Civil War
488,95 kr. Charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. The book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front
413,95 kr. Examining the breadth of Northern popular culture, J. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of how the Union's civilians understood the meaning of duty and citizenship in wartime. Gallman shows how thousands of authors, artists, and readers together created a new set of rules for navigating life in a nation at war.
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- 413,95 kr.
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- Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
588,95 kr. During the Irish famine 2,000,000 Irish men and women fled their homeland to settle in large British and American cities already wrestling complex urban problems. This book examines how the cities of Liverpool and Philadelphia met the challenge of this influx of immigrants.
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- 588,95 kr.
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- A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War
368,95 kr. A pioneering study of a Northern city during the Civil War that challenges the long-held belief that the War was a "second American Revolution."
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- 368,95 kr.