Michael F. Holt

The Political Crisis of the 1850s

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Holt sees the Civil War as representing a breakdown in America's democratic political process, more specifically the Second Party System of Whigs and Democrats. He demonstrates this system's success, beginning in the 1820s and 1830s, in confining sectional disputes safely within the political arena. With the breakdown of vital two-party competition in the 1850s, sectional issues increasingly took on ideological dimension, causing, Americans North and South to see in them dangerous threats to cherished republican institutions. No longer manageable within the arena of politics, sectional differences had to be resolved with in the arena of battl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-95370-1
EAN: 9780393953701
Produktnummer: 1495712
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1983
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.9 cm 295 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor

Michael F. Holt is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party.