Essays on American Antebellum Politics, 1840-1860
by Stephen E. Maizlish
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Writing on such subjects as voter partisanship, the road to recovery, and the surge of Republican power, these historians reach different conclusions but essentially agree on the centrality of the party system and the importance of ethnocultural issues in the sectional conflict. Besides using traditional historiographic techniques, some of the authors draw upon the findings and methods of the "New political history" to illuminate a variety of hitherto ignored or misunderstood aspects of show more antebellum American politics. In the process they offer a new look at some old problems and many new, provocative insights into these crucial two decades of American history. show lessTags
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- Essays on American Antebellum Politics, 1840-1860
- Dedication
- In Memory of Martin Hardwick Hall;
1925-1981;
Historian, Colleague, Friend - First words
- "The decades of the 1840s and 1850s and the secession crisis which ended in the outbreak of the Civil War represent to historians what mountain peaks represent to mountain climbers."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"With Lincoln, the interventionist Republican, about to assume office they acted."
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