02718nam 22005053u 450 991079007690332120230421053658.00-19-987998-21-283-11333-397866131133370-19-976226-0(CKB)2670000000089182(EBL)694007(OCoLC)726734951(SSID)ssj0000522710(PQKBManifestationID)12210063(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522710(PQKBWorkID)10528908(PQKB)11707846(MiAaPQ)EBC694007(EXLCZ)99267000000008918220140113d1995|||| uy| |engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Men[electronic resource] The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory EssayOxford Oxford University Press, USA19951 online resource (xliv, 353 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-509497-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.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.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 asUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesUnited StatesPolitics and government1849-1861973.6Foner Eric1943-145022AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910790076903321Free soil, free labor, free men1378129UNINA