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Between extremes : seeking the political center in the Civil War North / Jack Furniss.

Author/creator Furniss, Jack author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Portion of title Seeking the political center in the Civil War North
Series Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
Conflicting worlds. ^A449147
Contents A Story of the Middle -- Centrist Roots in Antebellum Politics, 1856-1860 -- A Conservative Consensus, 1861 -- Radicals Rebuked, 1862 -- Military Necessity and the Rise of the Copperheads, 1863 -- A Conservative Revolution, 1864 -- Could the Center Hold?
Abstract "Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln's administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and scope of the federal government. Since the United States never considered suspending the democratic process during the Civil War, these revolutionary developments--indeed the entire war effort--depended on ballots as much as bullets. Why did civilians who, at the start of the conflict, had not anticipated or desired these transformations to their society nonetheless vote to uphold them? Jack Furniss's Between Extremes proposes an answer to this question by revealing a potent strand of centrist politics that took hold across the Union and provided the conservative rationales that allowed most northerners to accept the war's radical outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Furniss, Jack Between extremes Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024] 9780807183113
LCCN 2024021422
ISBN9780807182185 hardcover
ISBN0807182184 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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