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Title Essays on American Antebellum politics, 1840-1860 / by William E. Gienapp ... [et al.] ; introduction by Thomas J. Pressly ; edited by Stephen E. Maizlish and John J. Kushma.

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College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington, by Texas A&M University Press, c1982.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	973.6 Es73	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	229 p. ; 24 cm.
Series	Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 16
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
Added Author	Gienapp, William E.
	Maizlish, Stephen E., 1945-
	Kushma, John J., 1949-
ISBN	0890961360 : $19.50