Politics of Continuity

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"A first-class inquiry into and rethinking of a critical period...The universal assumption is that the Civil War turned the nation and all its parts on their beam's end. Yet Maryland, for all its new constitutions in 1851, 1864, and 1867, its families driven by wartime allegiances, its taxes and inflation and combat losses--Maryland emerged under control by mostly the same persons as before."--James Bready, 'Baltimore Sun' "A valuable contribution to our knowledge of the party realignment that reshaped American politics in the mid-nineteenth century."--'Journal of Southern History'