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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.