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UNINA9910790076903321 |
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Autore |
Foner Eric <1943-> |
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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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0-19-987998-2 |
1-283-11333-3 |
9786613113337 |
0-19-976226-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xliv, 353 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes |
United States Politics and government 1849-1861 |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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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