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Author Gienapp, William E.

Title The origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 / William E. Gienapp.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

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 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  324.2730409 G362o 1987    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xi, 564 pages, [16] pages of plates : maps ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-474) and index.
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The presidential election of 18522 -- 2. The collapse of the second party system -- 3. Nebraska and nativism -- 4. The confusion of fusion -- 5. The failure of fusion -- 6. New issues, new leaders, new organizations -- 7. Launching the republican party -- 8. The formation of a national party organization -- 9. Spring breakthrough -- 10. The nomination of Frémont -- 11. Free soil, free labor, free speech, freemen, Frémont -- 12. The Frémont campaign -- 13. A victorious defeat -- Bibliography -- Statistical appendix -- Tables -- Index.
Summary The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America. ... Publisher descri[ption.
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History.
Political parties -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Elections -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1853-1857.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) (OCoLC)fst00544975
Elections. (OCoLC)fst00904324
Political parties. (OCoLC)fst01069410
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0195041003 (alk. paper)
9780195041002 (alk. paper)
0195055012 (pbk.)
9780195055016 (pbk.)

 
    
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