Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946-

Description

1. x, 397 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Secession > History
2. World politics > 20th century
3. Secession > Southern States
4. Separatist movements > History
5. World politics > 19th century
6. World politics > 21st century
7. Nationalism > History

Contents

1. pt. 1. The problem of secession. "The morality of secession" / Christopher Wellman -- "Secession and civil war" / David Armitage -- "Lincoln, the Constitution, and secession" / Peter Radan -- "Ethics of secession and political mobilization in Quebec" / Margaret Moore -- pt. 2. The case of the American South. "Lincoln, the collapse of deep South moderation, and the triumph of secession : a South Carolina congressman's moment of truth" / Charles B. Dew -- "Proslavery calculations and the value of Southern disunion" / Robert E. Bonner -- "'How a free people conduct a long war' : sustaining opposition to secession in the American Civil War" / Susan-Mary Grant -- "Secessionists in an age of secession : the slave South in transatlantic perspective" / Paul Quigley -- "The origins of the antimodern South : romantic nationalism and the secession movement in the American South" / Frank Towers -- pt. 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico. "Texas and the spread of that troublesome secessionist spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin" / Andrés Reséndez -- "The brief, glorious history of the Yucatecan Republic : secession and violence in southeast Mexico, 1836-1848" / Terry Rugeley -- pt. 4. European separatism. "Secessionist conflicts in Europe" / Bruno Coppieters -- "By the force of arms : violence and morality in secessionist conflict" / Aleksandar Pavković -- "Structure, agency, and secessionism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states" / Paul Kubicek -- "'Our cause was foredoomed to failure' : secession in Germany and the United States" / Stefan Zahlmann -- pt. 5. The Middle East, Asia, and Africa. "Common sense, or, A step pregnant with enormous consequences : some thoughts on the possible secession of Iraqi Kurdistan" / Peter Sluglett -- "Nationalism, separatism, and neoliberal globalism : a review of Africa and the quest for self-determination since the 1940s" / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- "Did Abraham Lincoln oppose Taiwan's secession from China?" / Alan M. Wachman.

Call number

1. JFE 10-7208

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index

Title

1. Secession as an international phenomenon : from America's Civil War to contemporary separatist movements / edited by Don H. Doyle.

Imprint

1. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index

Added author

1. Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946-

LCCN

1. 2010009553

ISBN

1. 9780820330082 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 0820330086 (hardcover : alk. paper)
3. 9780820337128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0820337129 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 10-7208