Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men [[electronic resource] ] : The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay

• Autore: Foner Eric <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xliv, 353 pages)
• Disciplina: 973.6
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes; United States Politics and government 1849-1861
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The idea of free labor in nineteenth-century America -- Abbreviations used in footnotes and bibliography -- Introduction -- Free labor : the Republicans and northern society -- The Republican critique of the South -- Salmon P. Chase : the Constitution and the slave power -- The radicals : anti-slavery politics and the moral imperative -- The Democratic Republicans -- Conservatives and moderates -- The Republicans and nativism -- The Republicans and race -- Slavery and the Republican ideology.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing on such issues as
• Titolo autorizzato: Free soil, free labor, free men
• ISBN: 0-19-987998-2; 1-283-11333-3; 9786613113337; 0-19-976226-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790076903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II