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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foner, Eric, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliv, 353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-987998-2

1-283-11333-3

9786613113337

0-19-976226-0

OCLC:

726734951