The Resource Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war, Paul Starobin
Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war, Paul Starobin
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- Summary
- In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: they could submit to abolition--or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow. In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so, he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "La Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- ix, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Target : Charleston
- "Stomach for the fight"
- "Men, women, and Rhetts"
- "I mistrust our own people"
- "Prowling about us"
- "The Charleston boy"
- "Build high the shaft!"
- To Charleston, "with three hundred kegs of beer"
- "Screaming like panthers"
- "Fourth of July"
- "I foresee nothing but disaster"
- "They would have been mobbed"
- "Black as charcoal"
- "Do not blink"
- "To set us free"
- "Hunted down"
- The gentleman revolutionary
- Secession Inc.
- "A large and coarse man"
- "Our lives, our fortunes ..."
- "Is it for manly resistance?"
- "God have mercy on my country"
- "Hurra for Lincoln"
- The judge
- "Will not delay cool the ardor?"
- "To arms, citizens!"
- The gospel of secession
- Catch me if you can
- "I have, doubtless, many faults"
- The flight of reason
- "To dare"
- "Wine and rejoicing"
- "Blood must be shed!"
- "City of desolation."
- Isbn
- 9781610396226
- Label
- Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war
- Title
- Madness rules the hour
- Title remainder
- Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Starobin
- Subject
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- 1861-1865
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History
- trueCharleston, South Carolina
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History
- trueNewspaper publishers and publishing
- truePolitical conventions
- truePresidential election, 1860
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1860
- truePropaganda
- Secession
- trueSecession
- Secession -- South Carolina | Charleston
- trueSlave trade
- trueSlavery
- South Carolina -- Charleston
- trueSouthern states
- United States
- trueUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
- trueUpper class
- War -- Causes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: they could submit to abolition--or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow. In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so, he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "La Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War
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- 10560775
- Cataloging source
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- Starobin, Paul
- Dewey number
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- 975.7/915
- 973.713
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F279.C457
- LC item number
- S63 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Secession
- Secession
- War
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- United States
- Charleston (S.C.)
- South Carolina
- United States
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- Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war
- Label
- Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war, Paul Starobin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Target : Charleston -- "Stomach for the fight" -- "Men, women, and Rhetts" -- "I mistrust our own people" -- "Prowling about us" -- "The Charleston boy" -- "Build high the shaft!" -- To Charleston, "with three hundred kegs of beer" -- "Screaming like panthers" -- "Fourth of July" -- "I foresee nothing but disaster" -- "They would have been mobbed" -- "Black as charcoal" -- "Do not blink" -- "To set us free" -- "Hunted down" -- The gentleman revolutionary -- Secession Inc. -- "A large and coarse man" -- "Our lives, our fortunes ..." -- "Is it for manly resistance?" -- "God have mercy on my country" -- "Hurra for Lincoln" -- The judge -- "Will not delay cool the ardor?" -- "To arms, citizens!" -- The gospel of secession -- Catch me if you can -- "I have, doubtless, many faults" -- The flight of reason -- "To dare" -- "Wine and rejoicing" -- "Blood must be shed!" -- "City of desolation."
- Control code
- 1822461
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- ix, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781610396226
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016045923
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40027067711
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781610396226
- (OCoLC)958798476
- Label
- Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war, Paul Starobin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Target : Charleston -- "Stomach for the fight" -- "Men, women, and Rhetts" -- "I mistrust our own people" -- "Prowling about us" -- "The Charleston boy" -- "Build high the shaft!" -- To Charleston, "with three hundred kegs of beer" -- "Screaming like panthers" -- "Fourth of July" -- "I foresee nothing but disaster" -- "They would have been mobbed" -- "Black as charcoal" -- "Do not blink" -- "To set us free" -- "Hunted down" -- The gentleman revolutionary -- Secession Inc. -- "A large and coarse man" -- "Our lives, our fortunes ..." -- "Is it for manly resistance?" -- "God have mercy on my country" -- "Hurra for Lincoln" -- The judge -- "Will not delay cool the ardor?" -- "To arms, citizens!" -- The gospel of secession -- Catch me if you can -- "I have, doubtless, many faults" -- The flight of reason -- "To dare" -- "Wine and rejoicing" -- "Blood must be shed!" -- "City of desolation."
- Control code
- 1822461
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- ix, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781610396226
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016045923
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40027067711
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781610396226
- (OCoLC)958798476
Subject
- 1861-1865
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History
- trueCharleston, South Carolina
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History
- trueNewspaper publishers and publishing
- truePolitical conventions
- truePresidential election, 1860
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1860
- truePropaganda
- Secession
- trueSecession
- Secession -- South Carolina | Charleston
- trueSlave trade
- trueSlavery
- South Carolina -- Charleston
- trueSouthern states
- United States
- trueUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
- trueUpper class
- War -- Causes
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