The Dynamics of Warfare in Civil War
In: Civil wars, Band 12, Heft 1-2, S. 91-116
ISSN: 1743-968X
In: Civil wars, Band 12, Heft 1-2, S. 91-116
ISSN: 1743-968X
In: The international library of essays in military history
In: Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history
In the historical literature of the American Civil War, the president, the generals, and the cabinet secretaries have won the war of words. Of the hundreds of men who served in the House of Representative during this great struggle, only a handful appear typically in general discussions of the period. Yet without a deeper understanding of the contributions of the members of Congress to the successful prosecution of the war we cannot fully appreciate the desperate nature of that conflict and its significance in the building of the nation. This book explores important aspects of the Civil War from the perspective of Capital Hill. It is an effort to reconnoiter some of the possibilities for understanding the congressmen, their relations with one another, and their interaction with President Lincoln. Designed as an exploration rather than as a full-scale history of the Civil War Congress, this book reveals a legislature in which the average length of service was very short, although a relatively small core of national public figures provide continuity. The era was one of strong ideology and fateful policy decisions, but the congressmen continued to think also as politicians. The author suggests that not one but many political agendas were at issue in Congress during the Civil War. The Republicans had significant success in achieving the goals represented by their national platform of 1860, but the necessity of developing an ad hoc wartime agenda resulted in major struggles between party leaders and between elements in Congress and in party caucuses, as well as between the legislative and executive branches. In such activity neither the president nor any particular congressional group was the clear victor, and the war ended with momentous issues still undecided. While public attention focused on such issues and great armies marched to victory or disaster, the federal lawmakers fulfilled their institutional roles to their own best advantages and thought in terms of patronage, personal power, and career advancement
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 106, Heft 696, S. 3-10
ISSN: 1944-785X
The US and Iraqi governments' reluctance to accept the designation 'civil war' does not alter the reality on the ground.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 106, Heft 696, S. 3-10
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: Civil wars, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 1-5
ISSN: 1743-968X
Blog: EU ROPE
Britain’s Children’s Newspaper – subtitled, 'The Story of the World Today for the Men and Women of Tomorrow' – was a remarkable and mature publication for youngsters. On 8 October 1938, with dark clouds of war looming, the newspaper ran a visionary editorial describing Europe as ‘one Brotherhood’ with a ‘common interest which binds its […]
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In: 20 Questions: History Ser
Intro -- Contents -- The Civil War -- 1. Who said your way is better than my way? -- 2. Am I not a person? -- 3. Did you hear what South Carolina did? -- 4. Who fired the first shot? -- 5. Why do they call him Stonewall? -- 6. What are they doing in a cornfield? -- 7. Why are there two names? -- 8. What country does Lincoln lead now? -- 9. Now who is in charge of the Northern army? -- 10. Just who is Jefferson Davis? -- 11. Who is that good-looking army officer? -- 12. Do we have to have peanut soup again? -- 13. Who said women cannnot help fight the war? -- 14. What will Lincoln do? -- 15. Did you hear that Lincoln said "forever free"? -- 16. Can we be soldiers now? -- 17. How did shoes start a battle? -- 18. How shall we honor the soldiers? -- 19. How do you spell the name of that place? -- 20. What in the world does E Pluribus Unum mean? -- Glossary -- Index and Web Sites
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 333-350
ISSN: 1086-3338
This is the age of revolutions. No longer are they the domain of the theorizer or the peripheral plotter. They have moved into the center of the average man's daily thought. They are on everybody's mind and in every newspaper's headline.No continent is exempted. The whole of Europe is in upheaval. Her political parties are aligned in the name of, or in opposition to, revolution. China's four decades of civil war, India's final attainment of independence, the awakening nationalism of the Near East and South Eastern Asia spell not only the end of historical empires, but also call into action socio-revolutionary forces that break the frame of established society. Even those areas that are not engulfed by revolution are confronted with its threat. Fascism and National Socialism, though they proved in the test of history to be mere pseudo-revolts, were nourished by grievances of modern society that are not overcome by military defeat and—as long as they remain unanswered—still represent a challenge to our democratic world.
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822037827995
"The United States Senate played a crucial role during the Civil War. Although the history of the war is often told from the perspective of President Abraham Lincoln and his military commanders, the Senate faced war-related issues even before Lincoln took the oath of office and continued to influence national events throughout the war. In the post-war Reconstruction years, senators led debates over emancipation, civil rights, and the readmission of Southern states to representation, and they proposed constitutional amendments to guarantee rights of citizenship. Throughout this long period of national crisis, the Senate also fulfilled its oversight and legislative responsibilities, passing a remarkable collection of landmark bills. In commemoration of the sesquicentennial of these pivotal events, this is the story of the Senate's Civil War"--P. [1] ; Shipping list no.: 2011-0426-P ; "The United States Senate played a crucial role during the Civil War. Although the history of the war is often told from the perspective of President Abraham Lincoln and his military commanders, the Senate faced war-related issues even before Lincoln took the oath of office and continued to influence national events throughout the war. In the post-war Reconstruction years, senators led debates over emancipation, civil rights, and the readmission of Southern states to representation, and they proposed constitutional amendments to guarantee rights of citizenship. Throughout this long period of national crisis, the Senate also fulfilled its oversight and legislative responsibilities, passing a remarkable collection of landmark bills. In commemoration of the sesquicentennial of these pivotal events, this is the story of the Senate's Civil War"--P. [1] ; Mode of access: Internet.
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4190
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 417-433
ISSN: 1460-3578
Geographical factors play a critical role in determining how a civil war is fought and who will prevail. Drawing on the PRIO/Uppsala Armed Conflict dataset covering the period 1946-2000, the authors have determined the location of all battle-zones for all civil wars in this time period, thereby identifying the geographic extent and the center point of each conflict. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) and three-stage least squares (3SLS) estimation techniques, factors are analyzed that determine the scope of the conflict (area of the conflict zone) and the location of the conflict relative to the capital. It is found that in addition to geographical factors such as the total land area of the country, scope is strongly shaped by such factors as the adjacencies of a border of a neighboring country, the incidence of natural resources in the conflict zone, and the duration of the conflict. The distance of the conflict zone from the capital is influenced by the scope of the conflict, the size of the country, whether or not the objective of the rebels is to secede, and whether or not the rebel group has a religious or ethnic identity. Also, evidence is found of an endogenous relationship between scope and location.
In: Journal of peace research, Band 39, S. 417-433
ISSN: 0022-3433
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