The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era /

"The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Quist, John W., 1960- (Editor ), Miller, Randall M. (Editor ), Birkner, Michael J., 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stevens, Thaddeus, > 1792-1868.
Buchanan, James, > 1791-1868.
Stevens, Thaddeus, > 1792-1868 > Political and social views.
Buchanan, James, > 1791-1868 > Political and social views.
Politics and government.
Politicians.
Political and social views.
Legislators.
Hommes politiques > États-Unis > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Politicians > United States > 19th century > Biography.
Legislators > United States > 19th century > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1815-1861.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > 1815-1861.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Possessing the power : the role of force in James Buchanan's Caribbean policy / Amy S. Greenberg
  • The bachelor's mess : James Buchanan and the domestic politics of doughfacery in Jacksonian America / Thomas J. Balcerski
  • Stephen A. Douglas, free-soiler : a counterfactual analysis of party reformation in the 1850s / Douglas R. Egerton
  • "General Jackson is dead" : dissecting a popular anecdote of nineteenth-century party leadership / Matthew Pinsker
  • "Buck all over" : James Buchanan and a trail of broken relationships / William P. MacKinnon
  • Slavery and the breakup of the Democratic Party in the North : a battle of ideas and organization / Frank Towers
  • Friends and outliers : Varina Davis, James Buchanan, and gender relations in Antebellum Washington / Joan E. Cashin
  • "Like the baseless fabric of a vision" : Thaddeus Stevens and confiscation reconsidered / John David Smith
  • "Eastern and Western empire" : Thaddeus Stevens and the greater Reconstruction / Michael Green
  • A conversation with Bruce Levine and James Oakes : moderated by Randall M. Miller.

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