John Ashworth

Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks why the United States experienced a civil war in 1861 and analyses the descent into war in the final decade of peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1261g
• ISBN-13: 9780521885928
• ISBN-10: 0521885922
• Artikelnr.: 22950789

Autorenporträt

John Ashworth was born in Lancashire, England, and studied at the Universities of Lancaster and Oxford. He is currently Professor of American History in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Professor Ashworth is the author of 'Agrarians' and 'Aristocrats': Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837-1846, of Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850 (both of which were published by Cambridge University Press), and of numerous articles and reviews in learned journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Slavery versus Antislavery: 1. Combating the weaknesses of slavery: Southern militants, 1850
1861; 2. The antislavery challenge: the Republicans, 1854
1861; Part II. Polarisation and Collapse: 3. The disintegration of democratic hegemony: northern and national Democrats, 1850
1861; 4. Political realignment: collapse of the Whigs and neo
Whigs, 1848
1861; Conclusion: explaining the Civil War (II).