Emotional and sectional conflict in the antebellum United States /

"The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labor systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woods, Michael E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
To 1899
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Sectionalism (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Emotions > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Emotions > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Social conflict > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Sectionalism (United States)
Emotions > Political aspects.
Emotions > Social aspects.
Politics and government.
Slavery > Political aspects.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Social conflict.
War > Causes.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1815-1861.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Finding the heart of the sectional conflict
  • Prologue: Slavery, sectionalism, and the affective theory of the Union
  • Part I. Emotion and the Growth of Sectional Political Identities
  • Free labor, slave labor, and the political economy of happiness
  • Managed hearts and unmanageable slaves
  • Jealousy and the sectionalization of emotional styles
  • Part II. Emotion and the Mobilization of Sectional Coalitions
  • Indignation and the fitful growth of mass antislavery sentiment, 1820-1856
  • Indignation and the Northern mobilization for war, 1856-1861
  • Political jealousy and Southern radicalism from nullification to secession
  • Mourning and the mobilization of reluctant secessionists, 1860-1861
  • Epilogue: Reconstructing the affective theory of the Union.

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