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Road to Disunion, Volume I : Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854.
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, ""a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream."" It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Prologue: The Spirit of Montgomery; PART I: A SWING AROUND THE SOUTHERN CIRCLE; 1. St. Louis to New Orleans; 2. New Orleans to Charleston to Baltimore to St. Louis; PART II: SOCIAL CONTROL IN A DESPOTS' DEMOCRACY; 3. Mastering Consenting White Folk; 4. The Domestic Charade, I: Massa's Act; 5. The Domestic Charade, II: Cuffee's Act; 6. Democrats as Lynchers; PART III: CONDITIONAL TERMINATION IN THE EARLY UPPER SOUTH; 7. Conditional Termination in the Early Republic; 8. The Missouri Controversy; 9. Class Revolt in Virginia, I: Anti-Egalitarianism Attacked.
- 10. Class Revolt in Virginia, II: Slavery Besieged11. Not-So-Conditional Termination in the Northern Chesapeake; PART IV: NONDECISIVE DECISION IN SOUTH CAROLINA; 12. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, I: Economic and Political Foundations; 13. Origins of South Carolina Eccentricity, II: Cultural Foundations; 14. The First Confrontation Crisis, I: Calhoun versus Jackson; 15. The First Confrontation Crisis, II: South Carolina versus the South; PART V: THE GAG RULE AND THE POLITICS OF ""MERE"" WORDS; 16. The Reorganization of Southern Politics.
- 17. The Gag Rule, I: Mr. Hammond's Mysterious Motion18. The Gag Rule, II: Mr. Pinckney's Controversial Compromise; 19. The Gag Rule, III: Mr. Johnson's Ironic Intransigence; PART VI: THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS; 20. Anti-Annexation as Manifest Destiny; 21. An Extremist's Zany Pilgrimage; 22. The Administration's Decision; 23. Southern Democrats' Decision; 24. The Electorate's Decision; 25. The Congressional Decision; PART VII: CRISIS AT MIDCENTURY; 26. Loaded Words, Loathsome Collaborations; 27. Southern Convention, Without a South; 28. The Armistice of 1850; 29. The Paralysis of the Old Order.
- 30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, I: Confrontation in Missouri31. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, II: Decision in Congress; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.