LEADER 03776nam  2200769 a 450 
001 9910823653003321
005 20200520144314.0
010   $a979-88-9313-104-8
010   $a0-8078-6607-5
010   $a1-4696-0620-8
010   $a0-8078-8718-8
035   $a(CKB)1000000000764487
035   $a(EBL)454841
035   $a(OCoLC)405097257
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000140191
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132244
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140191
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10053287
035   $a(PQKB)11497963
035   $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245469
035   $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23541
035   $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454841
035   $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310785
035   $a(CaONFJC)MIL931000
035   $a(PPN)26425869X
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454841
035   $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764487
100   $a20080407d2008      ub         0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|n|---|||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 10$aDisunion! $ethe coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 /$fElizabeth R. Varon
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (470 p.)
225 1 $aThe Littlefield history of the Civil War era
300   $a"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
311   $a0-8078-7159-1 
311   $a0-8078-3232-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 401-429) and index.
327   $aThe language of terrifying prophecy : disunion debates in the early republic -- We claim our rights : the advent of abolitionism -- Ruinous tendencies : the anti-abolition backlash -- The idea will become familiar : disunion in the era of mass party politics -- Oh for a man who is a man : debating slavery's expansion -- That is revolution! : the crisis of 1850 -- Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas -- To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans -- War to the knife : images of the coming fight -- Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : the war and beyond.
330   $aIn the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, ""disunion"" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they
410  0$aLittlefield history of the Civil War era.
606   $aSectionalism (United States)$xHistory
606   $aSectionalism (United States)$xHistory$vSources
606   $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory
607   $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865
607   $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865$vSources
607   $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses
615  0$aSectionalism (United States)$xHistory.
615  0$aSectionalism (United States)$xHistory
615  0$aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$xHistory.
615  0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory.
615  0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$xHistory.
676   $a973.7/11
700   $aVaron$b Elizabeth R.$f1963-$01618433
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910823653003321
996   $aDisunion$94066966
997   $aUNINA