A companion to the antebellum presidents / edited by Joel H. Silbey ; contributor John Ashworth [and nineteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silbey, Joel H., editor.

Ashworth, John.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History

Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--History--19th century.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1837-1841.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1841-1845.

United States--Politics and government--1845-1861.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Summary:

A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. presidents who served in the significant period between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861. Explores and evaluates the evolving scholarly reception of Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, including their roles, behaviors, triumphs, and failures Represents the first single-volume reference to gather together the historiographic literature on the Antebellu

Contents:

Introduction / Joel H. Silbey

General themes.

The political world of the antebellum presidents / Joel H. Silbey

The expansionist impulse in antebellum America / Michael A. Morrison

The rise of sectional tensions; parties, slavery and abolitionism / Nicole Etcheson

The antebellum presidents and foreign policy / Jay Sexton

The presidents.

Martin Van Buren as party leader and at Jackson's right hand / M. Philip Lucas

Van Buren and the economic collapse of the 1830's / Jonathan M. Atkins

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too": William Henry Harrison and the rise of popular politics / William G. Shade

President John Tyler, Henry Clay and the Whig Party / Edward Crapol

James K. Polk and the Democratic Party / M.J. Heale

Polk in office: domestic politics and policies / Paul Bergeron

Polk as a war president / John Pinhiero

Polk as a southern sectionalist / Michael Todd Landis

Zachary Taylor in office: Clay, the Whig Party, and the sectional crisis / Michael J. Birkner

Millard Fillmore, Whig politician and leader of his party / Damon Eubank

President Fillmore and the taming of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon

Franklin Pierce, democratic partisan / Yonatan Eyal

Franklin Pierce, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and the political transformation of the mid-1850's / John F. Kim, Jr

James Buchanan: the early political life of the old public functionary / Jean H. Baker

James Buchanan, the slavocracy and the disruption of the Democratic Party / James Huston

James Buchanan and the secession crisis / John Ashworth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118609293

1118609298

9781118609361

1118609360

9781118609330

1118609336

9781118609323

1118609328

OCLC:

865334537