1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00031710

Autore

ÜNVER, Ahmet Süheyl

Titolo

Geçmis yuzyillarda kiyafet resimlerimiz / A. Suheyl Unver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ankara, : Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1958 xv p., : 48 ill. f.t. ; 23 cm

Classificazione

OTT IX B

Soggetti

PITTURA TURCA - Sec. 19

Lingua di pubblicazione

Turkish

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821978803321

Autore

Freehling William W

Titolo

The road to disunion . Volume 1 Secessionists at bay, 1776-1854 / / William W. Freehling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

ISBN

0-19-976276-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (655 pages)

Disciplina

973

Soggetti

Secession - Southern States

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

Southern States Politics and government 1775-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Prologue: The Spirit of Montgomery; PART I: A SWING AROUND THE SOUTHERN CIRCLE; 1. St. Louis to New Orleans; 2. New Orleans to Charleston to Baltimore to St. Louis; PART II: SOCIAL CONTROL IN A DESPOTS' DEMOCRACY; 3. Mastering Consenting White Folk; 4. The Domestic Charade, I: Massa's Act; 5. The Domestic Charade, II: Cuffee's Act; 6. Democrats as Lynchers; PART III:



CONDITIONAL TERMINATION IN THE EARLY UPPER SOUTH; 7. Conditional Termination in the Early Republic; 8. The Missouri Controversy; 9. Class Revolt in Virginia, I: Anti-Egalitarianism Attacked

10. Class Revolt in Virginia, II: Slavery Besieged11. Not-So-Conditional Termination in the Northern Chesapeake; PART IV: NONDECISIVE DECISION IN SOUTH CAROLINA; 12. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, I: Economic and Political Foundations; 13. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, II: Cultural Foundations; 14. The First Confrontation Crisis, I: Calhoun versus Jackson; 15. The First Confrontation Crisis, II: South Carolina versus the South; PART V: THE GAG RULE AND THE POLITICS OF ""MERE"" WORDS; 16. The Reorganization of Southern Politics

17. The Gag Rule, I: Mr. Hammond's Mysterious Motion18. The Gag Rule, II: Mr. Pinckney's Controversial Compromise; 19. The Gag Rule, III: Mr. Johnson's Ironic Intransigence; PART VI: THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS; 20. Anti-Annexation as Manifest Destiny; 21. An Extremist's Zany Pilgrimage; 22. The Administration's Decision; 23. Southern Democrats' Decision; 24. The Electorate's Decision; 25. The Congressional Decision; PART VII: CRISIS AT MIDCENTURY; 26. Loaded Words, Loathsome Collaborations; 27. Southern Convention, Without a South; 28. The Armistice of 1850; 29. The Paralysis of the Old Order

30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, I: Confrontation in Missouri31. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, II: Decision in Congress; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, ""a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream."" It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border states already bitterly divided on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunio