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UNINA9910461473203321 |
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Autore |
Foner Eric |
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Titolo |
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men [[electronic resource] ] : The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-11333-3 |
9786613113337 |
0-19-976226-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861 |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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