Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1807–1845 - Hardcover

Lamplugh, George R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761865861 ISBN 13: 9780761865865

Publisher: University Press of America, 2015

Synopsis

Political developments in Georgia have always been baffling to those who did not live there. This work picks up the story of the evolution of Georgia political parties where the author left it in his first book, Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 (1986), carrying the story through 1845, by which date parties in Georgia actually mirrored those at the national level. It is a complicated story, involving, among other things, the legacy of the Yazoo Land Fraud; the development of political parties on the national level; and, especially, the presence of the Creek and Cherokee tribes in Georgia during a period when white Georgians were bent on expanding the culture of cotton. It is an unlovely story, but, by the mid-1840s, parties in Georgia finally resembled those in other parts of the nation, though, if one looked closely at their principles, questions remained.

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About the Author

George R. Lamplugh graduated from the University of Delaware, with a degree in History, in 1966. After two years in the U.S. Army (1966-1968), he earned a PhD. in American History from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. From the fall of 1973 through the spring of 2010, he served on the faculty of The Westminster Schools, Atlanta, Ga., including almost a decade as Chair of the History Department.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0761865861
• ISBN 13: 9780761865865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448