Edward Stanly [[electronic resource] ] : Whiggery's tarheel "conqueror" / / Norman D. Brown

• Autore: Brown Norman D
• Pubblicazione: University, : University of Alabama Press, c1974
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7/092/4; 973.70924
• Soggetto topico: Military governors - North Carolina
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-350) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1. The Ancient Standard of Federalism; 2. Encounter With a Connecticut Nightingale; 3. The Little Conqueror; 4. On, Stanly, On!; 5. The War With Captain Tyler; 6. Apple of Discord; 7. A Most Extraordinary Course; 8. Stanly and the Party Divided; 9. In the Land of Gold; 10. Mission of Love; 11. A Barren Sceptre; 12. An Inveterate Old-Line Whig; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Raised under the "Ancient Standard of Federalism," Edward Stanly was a southern nationalist during a time of popular nullification and secession doctrines. Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life, and recounts his fiery and controversial emergence in the Whig Party of North Carolina in the 1930's, his role as a champion of Whiggery in the United States House of Representatives 1837-1843 and 1849-1853, his candidacy for governor of California in 1857, his appointment by President Abraham Lincoln as a military governor of N
• Titolo autorizzato: Edward Stanly
• ISBN: 0-8173-8263-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454706403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Southern historical publications ; ; no. 18.