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
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Disciplina: 973.6
• Soggetto topico: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes; United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Idea of Free Labor in Nineteenth-Century America; Contents; Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Bibliography; Introduction; 1 Free Labor: The Republicans and Northern Society; 2 The Republican Critique of the South; 3 Salmon P. Chase: The Constitution and the Slave Power; 4 The Radicals: Anti-Slavery Politics and the Moral Imperative; 5 The Democratic Republicans; 6 Conservatives and Moderates; 7 The Republicans and Nativism; 8 The Republicans and Race; 9 Slavery and the Republican Ideology; Bibliography; Index
• 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: 1-283-11333-3; 9786613113337; 0-19-976226-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461473203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II