The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War - Softcover

Holt, Michael F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809044390 ISBN 13: 9780809044399

Verlag: HILL & WANG, 2005

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Book by Holt Michael F

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"Michael Holt's fascinating study of partisan politics and the territorial slavery issue shows again why he is one of America's finest pre-civil war historians." --William W. Freehling, author of The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

"Michael Holt has distilled a lifetime of scholarship in this impressive account of America's greatest political crisis. There is no better introduction to the intricate yet explosive politics of the 1850s." --Harry Watson, author of Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America

"Michael Holt has written a superb account of the nation's decent into Civil War. A skilled political historian, he focuses on the decisions that political leaders made, their arousal of the most divisive passions, and their loss of control of a system present in American life." --Joel H. Silbey, author of Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics

Reseña del editor:

Arguing that partisan politics ultimately caused the Civil War, the author paints a portrait of short-sighted politicos during the 1840s and 1850s using the slavery issue as political leverage in a variety of contests between the major parties. Reprint.

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• Verlag: HILL & WANG
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0809044390
• ISBN 13: 9780809044399
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192