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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790076903321

Autore

Foner Eric <1943->

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

0-19-987998-2

1-283-11333-3

9786613113337

0-19-976226-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xliv, 353 pages)

Disciplina

973.6

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

United States Politics and government 1849-1861

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 (pages 319-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The idea of free labor in nineteenth-century America -- Abbreviations used in footnotes and bibliography -- Introduction -- Free labor : the Republicans and northern society -- The Republican critique of the South -- Salmon P. Chase : the Constitution and the slave power -- The radicals : anti-slavery politics and the moral imperative -- The Democratic Republicans -- Conservatives and moderates -- The Republicans and nativism -- The Republicans and race -- Slavery and the Republican ideology.

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