The limits of sovereignty : property confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War / / Daniel W. Hamilton.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Hamilton, Daniel W.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 231 p.

Table of Contents

• Legislative property confiscation before the Civil War
• Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress
• The conservative assault on confiscation
• The moderate coup
• The Confederate Sequestration Act
• The ordeal of sequestration
• Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court
• The limits of sovereignty.