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A fire bell in the past : the Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume II, "The Missouri Question" and its answers / edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in constitutional democracy
- Studies in Constitutional Democracy Ser.
- Studies in Constitutional Democracy ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missouri compromise.
- Missouri compromise--Historiography.
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Political aspects.
- Sectionalism (United States).
- History.
- Territorial expansion.
- Historiography.
- United States.
- Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories.
- Slavery--Extension to the territories.
- United States--Politics and government--1817-1825.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.
- Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.
- Missouri--Politics and government--To 1865.
- Missouri.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Foreword: A Reckoning with Slavery / D. A. Dunkley
- Introduction: The 1821 Project / Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
- Chronology: The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise ; Part I: "The Missouri Question" in National Politics
- 1. "We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired": Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise / Michael J. McManus
- 2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested Reelection of James Monroe / Christopher Childers
- 3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis / Miriam Liebman ; Part II. Answering the Question in Missouri and across America
- 4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and African Americans' Rights in the Antebellum United States / Kate Masur
- 5. "Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty": Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery / Diane Mutti Burke
- 6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the Missouri Compromise before the Civil War / Richard Newman
- 7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise, Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri / Zachary Dowdle ; Part III. Legacies of the Missouri Crisis in American Political Culture
- 8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an Antebellum Political Insult / Nicholas P. Wood
- 9. "Contrary to the law of nature": The Reconstruction and Memory of Rufus King's Missouri Crisis Speeches / David J. Gary
- 10. "General declarations are insufficient": The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s / Matthew Mason ; Part IV. Reframing the Question Continentally
- 11. The Local Politics of "Indian Affairs": Diplomacy, Ethnic Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood / Edward P. Green
- 12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the Reimagining of North American Polities / Peter Kastor
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pasley, Jeffrey L. A Fire Bell in the Past
- ISBN:
- 0826274676
- 9780826274670
- Publisher Number:
- 40030841766
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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