Essays on American Antebellum politics, 1840-1860
By: by William E. Gienapp ... [et al.] ; introduction by Thomas J. Pressly ; edited by Stephen E. Maizlish and John J. Kushma.
Contributors: Gienapp, William E.; Maizlish, Stephen E., 1945-; Kushma, John J. 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;; no. 16; Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;; 16.
Publisher: Published for the University of Texas at Arlington, by Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Politics seem to enter into everything": political culture in the North, 1840-1860 / William E. Gienapp; title: The dimensions of voter partisan constancy in presidential elections from 1840 to 1860 / Thomas B. Alexander; title: Winding roads to recovery: the Whig Party from 1844 to 1848 / Michael F. Holt; title: The meaning of nativism and the crisis of the Union: the Know-Nothing movement in the Antebellum North / Stephen E. Maizlish; title: The surge of Republican power: partisan antipathy, American social conflict, and the coming of the Civil War / Joel H. Silbey.