TY - BOOK AU - Swierenga,Robert P. TI - Beyond the Civil War synthesis: political essays of the Civil War era T2 - Contributions in American history SN - 0837179602 AV - E468.5 .B49 U1 - 973.7 PY - 1975/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Greenwood Press KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Historiography KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Politics and government KW - 1861-1865 KW - Political events, 1821-1879 N1 - "A collection of ... articles in American political history that originally appeared in Civil War history."; Includes bibliographical references and index; [Part I. Historiography of the Civil War]; Civil War synthesis in American political history; (1964); Joel H. Silbey; Causes of the American Civil War : recent interpretations and new directions; (1974); Eric Foner; Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 : a critical overview of recent trends and interpretations; (1974); Richard O. Curry; John Brown and his judges : a critique of the historical literature; (1971); Stephen B. Oates --; [Part II. Politics at the grass roots : elections and voters]; Northern Democratic Party and the Congressional elections of 1858; (1973); David E. Meerse; Ethnic voter and the first Lincoln election; (1965); Robert P. Swierenga; Rejected Republican incumbents in the 1866 Congressional nominating conventions : a study in Reconstruction politics; (1973); Lawrence N. Powell; Rout of radicalism : Republicans and the elections of 1867; (1972); Michael Les Benedict; Republicans and Black suffrage in New York State : the grass roots response; (1975); Phyllis Frances Field --; [Part III. "Spirit of party" : Congress and roll call voting]; Party and section : the Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill; (1972); Gerald W. Wolff; Unconscious "spirit of party" in the Confederate Congress; (1972); Richard E. Beringer; Bloc and party in the United States Senate : 1861-1863; (1967); Alan G. Bogue; Who were the Senate radicals?; (1966); Edward L. Gambill; "Radical" political and economic policies : the Senate, 1873-1877; (1968); Glenn M. Linden --; [Part IV. Patronage, religion, and race : the ethnoreligious dimension of politics]; Political patronage and ethnic groups : foreign-born in the United States Customhouse Service, 1821-1861; (1971); Leonard Tabachnik; Religious and occupational roots of party identification : Illinois and Indiana in the 1870's; (1970); Richard Jensen; Negroes in the First and Second Reconstructions of the South; (1967); August Meier --; [Part V. Ideology and politics]; Slavery and the slave power : a crucial distinction; (1969); Larry Gara; William Lloyd Garrison and antislavery unity : a reappraisal; Bertram Wyatt-Brown; Aims and impact of Garrisonian abolitionism, 1840-1860; (1969); James B. Stewart ER -