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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461473203321

Autore

Foner Eric

Titolo

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men [[electronic resource] ] : The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

ISBN

1-283-11333-3

9786613113337

0-19-976226-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 pages)

Disciplina

973.6

Soggetti

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes

United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Idea of Free Labor in Nineteenth-Century America; Contents; Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Bibliography; Introduction; 1 Free Labor: The Republicans and Northern Society; 2 The Republican Critique of the South; 3 Salmon P. Chase: The Constitution and the Slave Power; 4 The Radicals: Anti-Slavery Politics and the Moral Imperative; 5 The Democratic Republicans; 6 Conservatives and Moderates; 7 The Republicans and Nativism; 8 The Republicans and Race; 9 Slavery and the Republican Ideology; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing on such issues as