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Politics and Power in a Slave Society : Alabama, 1800-1860 /
More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic soc...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | New paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Politics and Power in a Slave Society : |b Alabama, 1800-1860 / |c J. Mills Thornton ; with a new preface by the author. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a Baton Rouge : |b Louisiana State University Press, |c 2014. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2015 | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface to the new paperback edition -- Preface to the first edition -- PART ONE. QUERIES -- I. FOUNDATIONS : The birth of the style ; The style acquires substance -- II. THE LEGISLATURE : Personnel ; The institution ; Groups, blocs, and parties ; Measures -- III. THE PARTIES : Organization at the state level ; Country and best organization -- PART TWO. COMMILITONES -- IV. THE BOUNDS OF CRISIS : The Crisis of 1850 ; Southern Rights for mass consumption ; The fire-eaters -- V. FEAR AND FAVOR : Economic alterations ; Society in vertigo ; Political repsonses -- VI. SECESSION : The Whiggery in crisis ; The fire-eaters in crisis ; Yancey's crisis ; The voters in crisis ; Getting around the crisis ; Scorpio rising -- APPENDIX I : House votes indicating party divisions -- APPENDIX II : House votes indicating economic divisions. | |
| 520 | |a More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society governed by a planter elite. Instead, Thornton claims that Alabama was an aggressively democratic state, and that this very egalitarianism set the stage for secession. White Alabamians had first-hand experiences with slavery, and these encounters warned them to guard against the imposition of economic or social reforms that might limit their equality. Playing upon their fears, the leaders of the southern rights movement warned that national consolidation presented the danger that fanatic northern reformers would force alien values upon Alabama and its residents. These threats gained traction when national reforms of the 1850s gave state government a more active role in the everyday life of Alabama citizens; and ambitious young politicians were able to carry the state into secession in 1861. Politics and Power in a Slave Society continues to inspire scholars by challenging one of the fundamental articles of the American creed: that democracy intrinsically produces good. Contrary to our conventional wisdom, slavery was not an un-American institution, but rather coexisted with and supported the democratic beliefs of white Alabama. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a Alabama |x Politics and government |y To 1865. | |
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