Secession as an international phenomenon
Subtitle: from America's Civil War to contemporary separatist movements
By: edited by Don H. Doyle
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820330082; 9780820337128
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The problem of secession; title: The morality of secession / Christopher Wellman; title: Secession and civil war / David Armitage; title: Lincoln, the Constitution, and secession / Peter Radan; title: Ethics of secession and political mobilization in Quebec / Margaret Moore; title: pt. 2. The case of the American South; title: Lincoln, the collapse of deep South moderation, and the triumph of secession : a South Carolina congressman's moment of truth / Charles B. Dew; title: Proslavery calculations and the value of Southern disunion / Robert E. Bonner; title: How a free people conduct a long war : sustaining opposition to secession in the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant; title: Secessionists in an age of secession : the slave South in transatlantic perspective / Paul Quigley; title: The origins of the antimodern South : romantic nationalism and the secession movement in the American South / Frank Towers; title: pt. 3. Turbulence in the Gulf of Mexico; title: Texas and the spread of that troublesome secessionist spirit through the Gulf of Mexico Basin / Andrés Reséndez; title: The brief, glorious history of the Yucatecan Republic : secession and violence in southeast Mexico, 1836-1848 / Terry Rugeley; title: pt. 4. European separatism; title: Secessionist conflicts in Europe / Bruno Coppieters; title: By the force of arms : violence and morality in secessionist conflict / Aleksandar Pavkovic; title: Structure, agency, and secessionism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states / Paul Kubicek; title: "Our cause was foredoomed to failure" : secession in Germany and the United States / Stefan Zahlmann; title: pt. 5. The Middle East, Asia, Africa; title: Common sense, or, A step pregnant with enormous consequences : some thoughts on the possible secession of Iraqi Kurdistan / Peter Sluglett; title: Nationalism, separatism, and neoliberal globalism : a review of Africa and the quest for self-determination since the 1940s / Raphael Chijioke Njoku; title: Did Abraham Lincoln oppose Taiwan's secession from China? / Alan M. Wachman.