Adam I P Smith: 3 books
No Party Now
Politics in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis. In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing...
The Stormy Present
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats...
America Imagined
Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be...