A strife of tongues : the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War /

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"A Strife of Tongues analyzes the debates over the Compromise of 1850 to reveal the underlying assumptions and values of the North and the South a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Rather than examining voting patterns, factional alignments, legislative maneuvering, and specific meas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maizlish, Stephen E., 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Colección:Nation divided.
Temas:
1849-1865
Compromise of 1850.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Compromise of 1850
Politics and government
War > Causes
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1853.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1849-1853.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The slavery expansion issue: denied and affirmed
  • Consensus and conflict: sectional unity, national division
  • State equality, the transactional Union, and the Constitution
  • State equality, the perpetual Union, and the people
  • Conflicted commitments: slavery and race
  • Images in conflict: society, economy, and gender
  • The language of conflict and the battlefield of memory.

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