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A political nation : new directions in mid-nineteenth-century American political history / edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Rachel A. Shelden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal government--United States--History--19th century.
- Federal government.
- Secession--United States--History.
- Secession.
- States' rights (American politics)--History--19th century.
- States' rights (American politics).
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- Political parties--United States--History--19th century.
- Political parties.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1845-1849.
- United States--Politics and government--1841-1845.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Simpson, Arizona State University; J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613837455
- 9780813932835
- 0813932831
- 9781283525008
- 1283525003
- OCLC:
- 806056098
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