Disunion!
Subtitle: the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
By: Elizabeth R. Varon.
Series: The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780807832325
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources; Sectionalism (United States) -- History; Sectionalism (United States) -- History -- Sources; Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The language of terrifying prophecy : disunion debates in the early republic; title: We claim our rights : the advent of abolitionism; title: Ruinous tendencies : the anti-abolition backlash; title: The idea will become familiar : disunion in the era of mass party politics; title: Oh for a man who is a man : debating slavery's expansion; title: That is revolution! : the crisis of 1850; title: Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas; title: To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans; title: War to the knife : images of the coming fight; title: Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : war and beyond.