Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
229 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 16
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
"Politics seem to enter into everything": political culture in the North, 1840-1860 / W.E. Gienapp -- The dimensions of voter partisan constancy in presidential elections from 1840 to 1860 / T.B. Alexander --Winding roads to recovery: the Whig Party from 1844 to 1848 / M.F. Holt -- The meaning of nativism and the crisis of the Union: the Know-Nothing movement in the Antebellum North / S.E. Maizlish -- The surge of Republican power: partisan antipathy, American social conflict, and the coming of the Civil War / J.H. Silbey. |
Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
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Added Author |
Gienapp, William E.
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Maizlish, Stephen E., 1945-
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Kushma, John J., 1949-
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ISBN |
0890961360 : $19.50 |
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