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The election of 1860 reconsidered /

The election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate in the bloodiest conflict the United States had ever seen. Despite its obvious importance, surprisin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fuller, A. James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Civil War in the North.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the election of 1860 reconsidered / A. James Fuller
  • The political organizer: Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign / Michael S. Green
  • The 1860 southern sojourns of Stephen A. Douglas and the impressible separation / James L. Huston
  • A forlorn hope: interpreting the Breckinridge campaign as a matter of honor / A. James Fuller
  • The last true whig: John Bell and the politics of compromise in 1860 / A. James Fuller
  • Frederick Douglass and the abolitionist response to the election of 1860 / John R McKivigan
  • Saving the republic: turnout, ideology, and the republicanism in the election of 1860 / Thomas E. Rodgers
  • The election of 1860 and political realignment theory: Indiana as a case study / A. James Fuller
  • The view from abroad: Europeans look at the election of 1860 / Lawerence Sondhaus
  • "An inscrutable election?": the historiography of the election of 1860 / Douglas G. Gardner.