A political nation : new directions in mid-nineteenth-century American political history / / edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Rachel A. Shelden

• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.6
• Soggetto topico: Federal government - United States - History - 19th century; Secession - United States - History; States' rights (American politics) - History - 19th century; Political culture - United States - History - 19th century; Political parties - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1849-1877; United States Politics and government 1845-1849; United States Politics and government 1841-1845
• Altri autori: GallagherGary W SheldenRachel A. <1981->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Political culture in antebellum America: Not so strange bedfellows: northern and southern whigs in the Texas annexation controversy, 1844-1845 / Rachel A. Shelden; Apotheosis of a ruffian: the murder of Bill Pool and American political culture / Mark E. Neely Jr.; Public women and partisan politics, 1840-1860 / Jean Harvey Baker -- The politics of the secession crisis: The southern opposition and the crisis of the Union / Daniel W. Crofts; Reviving state rights / William W. Freehling; Where was Henry Clay? president-elect Abraham Lincoln and the crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 / William J. Cooper -- Parties and federalism in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction: "Come weal, come woe, I am with the anti-slavery party": federalism and the formation of the Pennsylvania Union Party, 1860-1864 / Sean Nalty; Alabama's Presidential Reconstruction Legislature / J. Mills Thornton; The fate of northern Democrats after the Civil War: another look at the presidential election of 1868 / Erik B. Alexander; Consider the alternatives: reassessing Republican Reconstruction / Brooks D. Simpson.
• Sommario/riassunto: Simpson, Arizona State University; J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Titolo autorizzato: A political nation
• ISBN: 9786613837455; 0-8139-3283-1; 1-283-52500-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821708503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II