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Michael F. Holt - Political Crisis Of The 1850 8242 S - 9780393953701 - V9780393953701
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Political Crisis Of The 1850 8242 S

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Description for Political Crisis Of The 1850 8242 S Paperback. Professor Holt's book provides a lucid and provocative interpretation of the coming of the Civil War. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 350.

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 battle.

The Political Crisis of ... Read more offers a clearly written account of politics (state and federal), sectionalism, race, and slavery from the 1820s through to the Civil War, brilliantly combining the behavioral and ideological approaches to political history.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393953701
SKU
V9780393953701
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Michael F. Holt
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.

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