More American than southern
Subtitle: Kentucky, slavery, and the war for an American ideology, 1828-1861
By: Gary R. Matthews
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781621900573
Subjects: Politics and government; Slavery; History; Political culture; Secession
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(pages 315-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Class structure; title: The paradigm; title: Subregional variances; title: The Whig era; title: The politics of economic development; title: Crisis and compromise; title: Party realignment; title: Cold war; title: The labyrinth of sectional politics; title: The secession crisis, part I; title: The secession crisis, part II; title: A hollow concept; title: Kentucky unionism; title: The end of an era.