Refusing to side with either the Union or the Confederacy, Great Britain officially declared neutrality in the U.S. Civil War, thereby putting into effect the Foreign Enlistment Act, which forbade all belligerents to arm ships in her ports. Unofficially, many British citizens sympathized with the Confederacy because the Union's naval blockade stopped the flow of cotton from Southern fields to English textile mills. For this reason, the Confederate representative James Bulloch found British shipbuilders willing to fill his orders for battle-ready vessels without inquiring too closely into his intentions.
The U.S. Consul in Liverpool, Thomas Haines Dudley, suspected Bulloch was commissioning warships for an assault on Union naval or commerce ships. Despite his lack of diplomatic experience—President Lincoln had appointed Dudley as a political favor—the consul committed himself to preventing vessels destined for the Confederacy from leaving the shipyards. Dudley hired private detectives, bribed workers, bought sworn affidavits, and provided room and board for turn-coat Confederate sailors willing to furnish evidence that could be used in court.
Confronting innumerable political obstacles and even threats to his life, Dudley served his country faithfully and courageously. He achieved his greatest success years after the war's conclusion when in 1872 an international tribunal awarded the United States $15 million in reparations for the British government's failure to enforce its own neutrality laws. This true account of Dudley's years of service sheds new light on a crucial diplomatic front of the American Civil War.
Автор: J. Edward Murr Название: Abraham Lincoln`s Wilderness Years: Collected Works of J. Edward Murr ISBN: 0253062683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253062680 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Abraham Lincoln spent a quarter of his life—from 1816 to 1830, ages 7 to 21—learning and growing in southwestern Indiana. Despite the importance of these formative years, Lincoln rarely discussed this period, and with his sudden, untimely death in 1865, mysterious gaps appear in recorded history. In Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years, Joshua Claybourn collects and annotates the most significant scholarship from J. Edward Murr, one of the only writers to cover this lost period of Lincoln's life. A Hoosier minister who grew up with the 16th president's cousins, Murr interviewed locals who knew Lincoln. Part I features selected portions of Murr's book-length manuscript on Lincoln's youth, published here for the first time. Part II offers a series by Murr on Lincoln's life in Indiana, originally printed in the Indiana Magazine of History. Part III reveals letters between Murr and US Senator Albert J. Beveridge, a prominent historian, about Beveridge's early manuscript of the biography Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858. Of all Lincoln's biographers, none knew his boyhood associates and Indiana environment as well as Murr, whose complete Lincoln research and scholarship have never been published—until now. Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years preserves and celebrates this important source material, unique for studying Lincoln's boyhood years in Indiana.
Автор: Robert S. Eckley Название: Lincoln`s Forgotten Friend, Leonard Swett ISBN: 0809338394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780809338399 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27720.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In this essential guide, Robert Henderson helps readers understand the power of the gift of tongues to let the Spirit pray through them and establish a renewed relationship with God, transcending the natural realm. Let go of powerless Christianity and ready yourself for the supernatural, in which the Bible declares that every believer can operate.
Автор: Reed Thomas J. Название: Avenging Lincoln`s Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth`s Accomplices ISBN: 1611478294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611478297 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 88880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Avenging Lincoln`s Death dissects the trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, showing that the trial was unconstitutional because Congress never authorized trial by military commission and President Johnson exceeded his authority by appointing a military commission.
Автор: Carl Wieck Название: Lincoln`s Quest for Equality: The Road to Gettysburg ISBN: 0875802990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875802992 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 40040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The "House Divided" speech helped to win Lincoln the presidency; the Gettysburg Address made him an icon. How did Lincoln come to speak the words that would change a nation? Analyzing the ideas and rhetoric in these two crucial speeches, Carl F. Wieck argues that the radical abolitionist movement exerted a significant influence on Lincoln's thought and moral development.
One of the most famous phrases in the Gettysburg Address—"government of the people, by the people, for the people"—was previously associated with Unitarian minister and radical abolitionist Theodore Parker, and Wieck argues that Lincoln's debt to Parker extends far beyond borrowing these few words. Establishing a clear connection between Lincoln and Parker through their mutual friend and Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, Wieck traces the similarities between Lincoln's key speeches and the philosophy, rhetoric, logic, and ideas found in writings by Parker and other abolitionists.
Ever the cautious politician, Lincoln sought to hide his intellectual and personal connections to the maligned and unpopular abolitionists. The usefulness of such subterfuge became apparent when, after John Brown's attempt to incite a slave revolt, Lincoln could truthfully state that he had no direct contact with radical abolitionists. In the meantime, Lincoln not only drew from Parker's abolitionist propaganda but also was influenced by Daniel Webster, a fervent nationalist who had advocated compromise over slavery in order to preserve the Union. Combining these seemingly contradictory political traditions, Lincoln created a contested middle position that ultimately brought him to the White House.
Tracing the Great Emancipator's political ideology from the antebellum era and culminating at Gettysburg, Lincoln's Quest for Equality sheds new light on the intellectual development of the president who reshaped American political culture.
Автор: Lincoln, Abraham Название: Lincoln`s selected writings ISBN: 0393921794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393921793 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 17940.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bancroft-Prize winning scholar David S. Reynolds introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln`s writings-from earliest days through to his last.
When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon -- fresh out of medical school -- struggled to keep the president alive while Mary Todd Lincoln moaned at her husband's bedside.
In Lincoln's Final Hours, author Kathryn Canavan takes a magnifying glass to the last moments of the president's life and to the impact his assassination had on a country still reeling from a bloody civil war. With vivid, thoroughly researched prose and a reporter's eye for detail, this fast-paced account not only furnishes a glimpse into John Wilkes Booth's personal and political motivations but also illuminates the stories of ordinary people whose lives were changed forever by the assassination.
While countless works on the Lincoln assassination exist, Lincoln's Final Hours moves beyond the well-known traditional accounts, offering readers a front-row seat to the drama and horror of Lincoln's death by putting them in the shoes of the audience in Ford's Theatre that dreadful evening. Through her careful narration of the twists of fate that placed the president in harm's way, of the plotting conversations Booth had with his accomplices, and of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, Canavan illustrates how the experiences of a single night changed the course of history.
Автор: Vicchio Stephen J. Название: Abraham Lincoln`s Religion ISBN: 1532641613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532641619 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: D`Amico Michael Francis Название: The True History of Lincoln`s Assassination ISBN: 1943650063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943650064 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: After reading Lincoln's First Inaugural Address and realizing Lincoln's firm determination to honor the oath that he had taken to "protect and defend" the Constitution of the United States and the Union, the author developed a compelling desire for information pertaining to his assassination. He spent over fourteen years searching the shelves of used-book stores and libraries in the Washington D.C area, including the Library of Congress, for pertinent, fact-based material; accumulating over sixty sources. "The True History of Lincoln's Assassination" is accurate, all-inclusive, and has been reviewed by The Abraham Lincoln Research Library whose assessment is that "... it is very well researched and provides a variety of perspectives that researchers may utilize." It contains many photographs including several that have never before published.
Автор: Cox E. S. Название: Lincoln`s Negro Policy ISBN: 1646065689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781646065684 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Contrary to popular belief, Abraham Lincoln--and many other famous American politicians and Founding Fathers--regarded total physical racial separation and the repatriation of all blacks back to Africa as the only solution to America's racial problems.
This work shows--from Lincoln's speeches and actions--that he never considered the integration of blacks into American society as an option, and repeatedly told "free Negroes" that their true destiny lay outside of America, in a "colony" of their own, either in Africa or elsewhere in the Caribbean or South America.
Even Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation contained the demand that blacks be sent back to a colony outside the U.S., as this study shows.
This repatriation plan was also supported by millions of blacks. The black organizations and leadership--including Paul Cuffe, Henry M. Turner, Marcus Garvey, and M. M. L. Gordon--are also reviewed in this riveting work.
Lincoln was in fact making plans to establish a colony in Africa for blacks only days before he was assassinated.
This book also studies the work of the American Colonization Society, set up to promote the repatriation policy, and whose members included numerous American presidents such as James Monroe, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln.
This edition has been completely reset and hand-edited. It contains 11 illustrations and is fully indexed.
About the author: Earnest Sevier Cox (January 24, 1880-April 26, 1966) was a US Army Lieutenant Colonel and World War I veteran who was also one of the most influential writers on race in America right up until his death. In 1922 Cox and composer John Powell founded the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America in Richmond, Virginia. They were successful in passing Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 outlawing miscegenation. The law was only overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1967.
Автор: Marvel, William Название: Lincoln`s autocrat ISBN: 1469636158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636153 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority - and the public coffers - to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties. Though Lincoln's ability to harness a cabinet with sharp divisions and strong personalities is widely celebrated, Marvel suggests that Stanton's tenure raises important questions about Lincoln's actual control over the executive branch. This insightful biography also reveals why men like Ulysses S. Grant considered Stanton a coward and a bully, who was unashamed to use political power for partisan enforcement and personal preservation.
Автор: Seabrook Lochlainn Название: Lincoln`s War: The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser ISBN: 1943737371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943737376 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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