States at War, Volume 5

States at War, Volume 5

Author: Richard F. Miller

Publisher: University Press of New England

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 161168689X

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While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War States and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This crucial reference book, the fifth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Ohio during the Civil War. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use by professional historians and amateurs, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual stateÕs war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.


Capitalism Takes Command

Capitalism Takes Command

Author: Michael Zakim

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-12-21

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0226977994

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Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.


Litigating Judicial Selection

Litigating Judicial Selection

Author: Herbert M. Kritzer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-03-31

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1009425447

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The first examination of judicial selection litigation in the United States and beyond. Analyzes over 2,000 cases and presents patterns of litigation over time and across states. A unique study of the interaction of litigation and politics in the US throughout the entire history of the country.