2: Letteratura / [scritti di] Cesare Paoli [et. al.]

• Record Nr.: UNISOBSOBE00058514
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano : Treves, 1894
• Descrizione fisica: 283-455 p. ; 19 cm
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Disunion! [[electronic resource] ] : the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 / / Elizabeth R. Varon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777958803321
• Autore: Varon Elizabeth R. <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8078-6607-5; 1-4696-0620-8; 0-8078-8718-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Collana: The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
• Disciplina: 973.7/11
• Soggetti: Sectionalism (United States) - History; Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History; Antislavery movements - United States - History; Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History; United States Politics and government 1783-1865; United States Politics and government 1783-1865 Sources; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-429) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The language of terrifying prophecy : disunion debates in the early ; republic -- We claim our rights : the advent of abolitionism -- Ruinous tendencies : the anti-abolition backlash -- The idea will become familiar : disunion in the era of mass party politics -- Oh for a man who is a man : debating slavery's expansion -- That is revolution! : the crisis of 1850 -- Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas -- To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans -- War to the knife : images of the coming fight -- Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : the war and beyond.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, ""disunion"" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they