LEADER 03307nam 2200493 450 001 9910796321803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8139-4120-2 035 $a(CKB)3830000000060472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5447711 035 $a(OCoLC)1043555666 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5447711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11591468 035 $a(EXLCZ)993830000000060472 100 $a20180726d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA strife of tongues $ethe Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War /$fStephen E. Maizlish 210 1$aCharlottesville ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (332 pages) 225 1 $aA nation divided: studies in the Civil War era 311 $a0-8139-4119-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe slavery expansion issue: denied and affirmed -- Consensus and conflict: sectional unity, national division -- State equality, the transactional Union, and the Constitution -- State equality, the perpetual Union, and the people -- Conflicted commitments: slavery and race -- Images in conflict: society, economy, and gender -- The language of conflict and the battlefield of memory. 330 $a"A Strife of Tongues analyzes the debates over the Compromise of 1850 to reveal the underlying assumptions and values of the North and the South a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Rather than examining voting patterns, factional alignments, legislative maneuvering, and specific measures of the Compromise, this account looks at the language of the debate, the words of the senators and representatives, to discover the concepts and beliefs that defined the North and the South as the sectional confrontation approached. To a large extent, these opposing ideologies had common roots and were based on shared assumptions. Northerners and southerners had similar views of gender and masculinity, pursued the common goal of capital accumulation, and were in fundamental agreement over the superiority of the white race. But conflicting views of slavery, and especially slavery expansion, led to the development of highly divergent systems of belief about politics, economics, and society that would sustain the deepening sectional division and eventually support separation. This examination of the language of the debate yields a novel account of the dynamic driving the crisis of 1850 and sectional conflict generally. The ideological formulations of the Compromise debates of 1850 laid the foundations of the American Civil War"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aNation divided. 606 $aCompromise of 1850 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1849-1853 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses 615 0$aCompromise of 1850. 676 $a973.6/4 700 $aMaizlish$b Stephen E.$f1945-$01582235 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796321803321 996 $aA strife of tongues$93864440 997 $aUNINA