Title With ballots and bullets : partisanship and violence in the American Civil War / Nathan P. Kalmoe, Louisiana State University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 276 pages) : illustrations Contents An Introduction to Partisan Warfare -- The Roots of Partisan Civil War -- The Press Goes to War -- Filling the Ranks -- Election News during Wartime -- Weighing the Dead -- Partisan Stability & the Myth of Atlanta -- Ghosts of the Civil War -- Lessons from Partisan Warfare Summary "With Ballots & Bullets reveals disquieting relationships between mass partisanship and violence in the Civil War era. The book provides historical insights on the impact of ordinary people in the loyal states, but it also speaks to the nature of partisan conflict across time. It challenges and affirms historical and political scholarship with evidence from America's most costly and consequential conflict, a cataclysm that still resounds in our politics today. The book contributes four key insights about mass partisanship in the Civil War era using vast datasets of election returns, individual Union soldier records, Census reports, and a representative sample of newspapers: 1) parties mobilized the killing in a fundamentally partisan war, 2) voters were impervious to unprecedented political and military events before, during, and after the war, 3) partisanship polarized the war's effects on voters, and 4) partisanship profoundly shaped post-war memory. These powerful dynamics arose from interactions between and among leaders & citizens. The Civil War remade the nation and its people. This book shows the violent, dynamic role of mass partisanship in that remaking"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2020) Subject Opposition (Political science) -- United States -- History -- 19th century Party affiliation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century Political participation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Political psychology -- United States -- History -- 19th century Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Opposition (Political science) Party affiliation Political culture Political participation Political psychology Politics and government SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140441 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140242 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Political aspects Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020000225 ISBN 9781108870504 1108870503

Other Titles Partisanship and violence in the American Civil War

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