A strife of tongues the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War
"A Strife of Tongues analyzes the debates over the Compromise of 1850 to reveal the underlying assumptions and values of the North and the South a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Rather than examining voting patterns, factional alignments, legislative maneuvering, and specific meas...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2018.
©2018. |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
A nation divided: studies in the Civil War era. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44683431*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The slavery expansion issue: denied and affirmed
- Consensus and conflict: sectional unity, national division
- State equality, the transactional Union, and the Constitution
- State equality, the perpetual Union, and the people
- Conflicted commitments: slavery and race
- Images in conflict: society, economy, and gender
- The language of conflict and the battlefield of memory.
