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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462148803321

Titolo

A political nation [[electronic resource] ] : new directions in mid-nineteenth-century American political history / / edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Rachel A. Shelden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613837455

0-8139-3283-1

1-283-52500-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GallagherGary W

SheldenRachel A. <1981->

Disciplina

973.6

Soggetti

Federal government - United States - History - 19th century

Secession - United States - History

States' rights (American politics) - History - 19th century

Political culture - United States - History - 19th century

Political parties - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1849-1877

United States Politics and government 1845-1849

United States Politics and government 1841-1845

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Political culture in antebellum America: Not so strange bedfellows: northern and southern whigs in the Texas annexation controversy, 1844-1845 / Rachel A. Shelden; Apotheosis of a ruffian: the murder of Bill Pool and American political culture / Mark E. Neely Jr.; Public women and partisan politics, 1840-1860 / Jean Harvey Baker -- The politics of the secession crisis: The southern opposition and the crisis of the Union / Daniel W. Crofts; Reviving state rights / William W. Freehling; Where was Henry Clay? president-elect Abraham Lincoln and the crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 / William J. Cooper -- Parties and federalism in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction: "Come weal,



come woe, I am with the anti-slavery party": federalism and the formation of the Pennsylvania Union Party, 1860-1864 / Sean Nalty; Alabama's Presidential Reconstruction Legislature / J. Mills Thornton; The fate of northern Democrats after the Civil War: another look at the presidential election of 1868 / Erik B. Alexander; Consider the alternatives: reassessing Republican Reconstruction / Brooks D. Simpson.