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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. My review is available at http://elektratig.blogspot.com/2009/07/road-to-road-to-gettysburg-10-favorite.ht... ( ) 4589. The Political Crisis of the 1850s, by Michael F. Holt (read 3 Jul 2009) As I have read Holt's magisterial history of the Whig Party I probably did not need to read this book. His thesis is that slavery was not in the 1850s an all consuming issue, but he concludes nevertheless that it was the issue which most probably caused the Civil War--which I have always thought was obvious. Holt relates the political events of the years from 1848 through early 1861 with thoroughness, but I did not think his account was very lively, and I had trouble staying interested. He says David Potter's The Impending Crisis is an indispensable book for this period in American history, and I was thoroughly enamored of that book when I read it back in 1976. So if you have not read it, you would be well advised to read it rather than this quite dry book geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.6History and Geography North America United States 1845-1861LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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