More American than southern : Kentucky, slavery, and the war for an American ideology, 1828-1861 /

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When Fort Sumter fell to Confederate troops in April 1861, most states quickly declared their allegiances to the North or South. Kentucky, however, assumed an antiwar posture that outlasted Fort Sumter by five months, begrudgingly joining the Union cause only when Confederate troops marched into the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matthews, Gary Robert, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1792-1899
Slavery > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Political culture > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Secession > Kentucky.
Sécession > Kentucky.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Secession.
Slavery.
Kentucky > Politics and government > 1792-1865.
Kentucky > History > 1792-1865.
Kentucky > Politique et gouvernement > 1792-1865.
Kentucky > Histoire > 1792-1865.
Kentucky.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Class structure
  • The paradigm
  • Subregional variances
  • The Whig era
  • The politics of economic development
  • Crisis and compromise
  • Party realignment
  • Cold war
  • The labyrinth of sectional politics
  • The secession crisis, part I
  • The secession crisis, part II
  • A hollow concept
  • Kentucky unionism
  • The end of an era.

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