Political Crisis of the 1850s

Name: Political Crisis of the 1850s
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ISBN: 9780393953701

ISBN-10: 039395370X

ISBN-13: 9780393953701

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Authors: Michael F. Holt

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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 battle.The Political Crisis of the 1850s offers a…

Book details

List price: $16.70
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.70" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English