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Lädt ... The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California (Original 2012; 2012. Auflage)von Glenna Matthews (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Being an awkward attempt to elucidate California's Civil War years through the prism of small-to-medium Unitarian celebrity King. The book is well-researched and adequately written, but King's presence mandates digressions into uninteresting tangents such as the history of Unitarianism and Transcendentalism in New England, fundraising for military charity the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and sightseeing in the Yosemite country, to the point that King becomes a very unwelcome guest. Since the author declines any opportunities to tell a military story, brushing off the CSA expedition to conquer the state in a few paragraphs, that leaves her sections on ethnic and party politics in the state as the main point of interest in the book. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
This book breaks new ground, not only in its coverage of California, but also in its treatment of the role of cultural links in enhancing national loyalty, in its attention to many groups of people of color, including Chinese and Latinos, and what happened to them during the Civil War. In addition, the book devotes attention to the ebb and flow of the two political parties and to the little-known fact that nearly 17,000 California men and women volunteered for military service on behalf of the Union. Glenna Matthews broadens understanding of the Civil War era both in terms of geography and in terms of social groupings. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)979.4History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. CaliforniaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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