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Evangelicals and politics in antebellum America /
This book seeks to fill one of the great gaps in American historical writing by examining the relationship between evangelical Protestant piety and political life in the critical twenty years before the Civil War. It is the first study directly to address the question of how effectively evangelicals...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Protestant evangelicals in an age of mass political parties
- Presidential electioneering and the appeal to evangelicals : 1840
- Presidential electioneering and the appeal to evangelicals : 1844 and 1848
- Patterns of electoral response : evangelicals and partisan allegiance during the second party system
- Evangelicals, slavery, and sectionalism in the 1840s
- Evangelicals and the resolution of political crisis, 1850-52
- The collapse of the second party system : Protestant insurgents and know nothing millennialism
- The emergence of the third party system : evangelicals and sectional antagonism, 1854-56
- Houses divided : evangelical churches and the sundering of the union, 1857-61
- Conclusion : "God prosper the right."