Mathisen, Erik, <br/><br/>
The loyal republic :  traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America / 
Erik Mathisen. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2018. Baltimore, Md. :  Project MUSE,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) 
 - Civil War America .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>A government without citizens --  The rise and fall of a slaveholder's republic --  Schools of citizenship --  Defining loyalty in an age of emancipation --  Loyalty under fire --  It looks much like abandoned land. 
<br/><br/> Mathisen tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As the author demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469636344 9781469636337 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Freed persons--Civil rights--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Nation-state.<br/>Allegiance.<br/>Citizenship--History.--Confederate States of America<br/>Citizenship--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK1759  / .L693 2018