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Calculating the value of the Union [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War / / James L. Huston



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Autore: Huston James L. <1947-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Calculating the value of the Union [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War / / James L. Huston Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 p.)
Disciplina: 973.71
Soggetto topico: Slavery - Economic aspects - United States - History
Right of property - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Economic aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-385) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I. The Themes of Slavery and Property Rights, 1776-1860; 1. Slavery, Property Rights, and the American Revolution; 2. The Origins of Slaveholder Aggressiveness; 3. Free Labor and the Competition of Slaves; 4. The Antislavery Debate over Property Rights; 5. The Constitutionality of Slavery Prohibition in the Territories; Part II. The Political Realignment of the 1850's; 6. The Politics of Southern Upheaval, 1846-1853; 7. The Northern Realignment, 1854-1860; Afterword; Appendix A. A Theory of Political Realignment; Appendix B. Graphing U.S. Politics, 1840-1860
Appendix C. State and Congressional Elections Used in Figures 6.1, 7.1, and B.1-10 Appendix D. Number of Cases for Regions in Average Vote in Elections Used for Figures 6.1, 7.1, and B.1-10; Notes; Sources; Index;
Sommario/riassunto: While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War.In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights
Titolo autorizzato: Calculating the value of the Union  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908774-9-9
0-8078-6168-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777594003321
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Serie: Civil War America.