Secessionists triumphant 1854-1861
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | The road to disunion ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31697288*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Better economic times generate worse democratic dilemmas
- Democracy and despotism, 1776-1854: road, volume I revisited
- Economic bonanza, 1850-1860
- Part II: The climactic ideological frustrations
- James Henry Hammond and the unsolvable proslavery puzzle
- The three imperfect solutions
- The puzzling future and the infuriating scapegoats
- Part III: The climactic political frustrations
- Bleeding Kansas and bloody Sumner
- The scattering of the ex-Whigs
- James Buchanan's precarious election
- The president-elect as the Dred Scotts' judge
- The climactic Kansas crisis
- Caribbean delusions
- Reopening the African slave trade
- Reenslaving free Blacks
- Part IV: John Brown and three other men coincidentally named John
- John Brown and violent invasion
- John G. Fee and religious invasion
- John Underwood and economic invasion
- John Clark and political invasion
- Part V: The election of 1860
- Yancey's lethal abstraction
- The democracy's Charleston Convention
- The democracy's Baltimore Convention
- Suspicious Southerners and Lincoln's election
- Part VI: South Carolina dares
- The state's rights justification
- The motivation
- The tactics and tacticians
- The triumph, Coda: did the coincidence change history?
- Part VII: Lower South landslide, Upper South stalemate
- Alexander Stephen's fleeting moment, Coda: did Stephen's and Hammond's personalities change history?
- Southwestern Separatists' tactics and messages
- Compromise rejected
- Military explosions
- Snowball rolling
- Upper South stalemate
- Stalemate-and the South-shattered, Coda: how did slavery cause the Civil War?
