Essays on American Antebellum politics, 1840-1860
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Essays on American Antebellum politics, 1840-1860
（The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures, 16）
Published for the University of Texas at Arlington, by Texas A&M University Press, c1982
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- "Politics seem to enter into everything": political culture in the North, 1840-1860 / William E. Gienapp
- The dimensions of voter partisan constancy in presidential elections from 1840 to 1860 / Thomas B. Alexander
- Winding roads to recovery: the Whig Party from 1844 to 1848 / Michael F. Holt
- The meaning of nativism and the crisis of the Union: the Know-Nothing movement in the Antebellum North / Stephen E. Maizlish
- The surge of Republican power: partisan antipathy, American social conflict, and the coming of the Civil War / Joel H. Silbey
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Description
Writing on such subjects as voter partisanship, the road to recovery, and the surge of Republican power, these historians reach different conclusions but essentially agree on the centrality of the party system and the importance of ethnocultural issues in the sectional conflict. Besides using traditional historiographic techniques, some of the authors draw upon the findings and methods of the "New political history" to illuminate a variety of hitherto ignored or misunderstood aspects of antebellum American politics. In the process they offer a new look at some old problems and many new, provocative insights into these crucial two decades of American history.
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