Essays on American Antebellum Politics 1840-1860

Maizlish, Stephen E. and John J. Kushma, Editors [Intro. by Thomas J. Pressly]

ISBN 10: 0890961360 / ISBN 13: 9780890961360

Published by Texas A & M University Press, College Station, 1982

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Clean, bright & tight copy with dj protected in mylar. Inscribed by editor Maizlish on ffep. 1. "Politics Seem to Enter into Everything: Political Culture in the North 1840-1860," by William E. Gienapp. 2. The Dimensions of Voter Partisan Constancy in Presidential Elections from 1840-1860," by Thomas B. Alexander. 3. "Winding Roads to Recovery: The Whig Party from 1844-1848," by Michael F. Holt. 4. "The Meaning of Nativism and the Crisis of the Union: The Know-Nothing Movement in the Antebellum North," by Stephen E. Maizlish. 5. "The Surge of Republican Power: Partisan Antipathy, American Social Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War," by Joel H. Silbey. Bookseller Inventory # 004153

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Title: Essays on American Antebellum Politics 1840-...

Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, College Station

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Cloth

Book Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Writing on such subjects as voter partisanship, the road to recovery, and the surge of Republican power, these historians reach different conclusions but essentially agree on the centrality of the party system and the importance of ethnocultural issues in the sectional conflict. Besides using traditional historiographic techniques, some of the authors draw upon the findings and methods of the “New political history” to illuminate a variety of hitherto ignored or misunderstood aspects of antebellum American politics. In the process they offer a new look at some old problems and many new, provocative insights into these crucial two decades of American history.