The F Street Mess : How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act /

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"Malavasic argues that some Southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery ... focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, an...

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Autor principal: Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mason, J. M. > (James Murray), > 1798-1871.
Hunter, R. M. T. > (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), > 1809-1887.
Butler, A. P. > (Andrew Pickens), > 1796-1857.
Atchison, David Rice, > 1807-1886.
United States. > Congress.
United States. > Congress > History > 19th century.
United States. > Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (United States)
Slavery > Political aspects.
Slavery > Extension to the territories.
Oligarchy.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Oligarchie > États-Unis.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Extension aux États libres.
Oligarchy > United States.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Malavasic argues that some Southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery ... focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M.T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the "F Street Mess" for the location of the house they shared. ... the F Street Mess was a functioning oligarchy within the U.S. Senate whose power was based on shared ideology, institutional seniority, and personal friendship"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781469635545

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