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The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War

The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War Paperback / softback - 2010

by Williamjames Hull Hoffer

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Paperback / softback. New. He addresses the importance of the event in the national crisis and shows why such actions are not quite as alien to today's politics as they might at first seem.
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  • Title The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
  • Author Williamjames Hull Hoffer
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date 2010-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780801894695
  • ISBN 9780801894695 / 0801894697
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Geographic Orientation: District of Columbia
    • Locality: Washington, D.C.
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Legislators - United States, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009035569
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.711

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 06/15/2010, Page 82
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2010, Page 68

About the author

Williamjames Hull Hoffer is an associate professor of history at Seton Hall University and the author of To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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