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The Democratic Collapse : How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861 /

"This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Lauren Haumesser here traces how northern and southern Democrats and their par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haumesser, Lauren N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Lauren Haumesser here traces how northern and southern Democrats and their partisan media organs used gender to make powerful arguments about slavery as the sectional crisis grew, from the emergence of the Republican Party to secession. Gendered charges and countercharges turned slavery into an intractable cultural debate, raising the stakes of every dispute and making compromise ever more elusive"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9781469671451