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

by Williamjames Hull Hoffer

Book Overview

A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894697
• ISBN13: 9780801894695
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"