A strife of tongues : the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil W...
A strife of tongues : the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil W...
A strife of tongues : the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War / Stephen E. Maizlish.
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
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G 2019/3006
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English
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Physical content
xv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The slavery expansion issue: denied and affirmed -- Consensus and conflict: sectional unity, national division -- State equality, the transactional Union, and the Constitution -- State equality, the perpetual Union, and the people -- Conflicted commitments: slavery and race -- Images in conflict: so...
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
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Virginia
Date Published
2018.
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"A Strife of Tongues analyzes the debates over the Compromise of 1850 to reveal the underlying assumptions and values of the North and the South a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Rather than examining voting patterns, factional alignments, legislative maneuvering, and specific measures of the Compromise, this account looks at the langu...
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A strife of tongues : the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War / Stephen E. Maizlish.
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Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War
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A nation divided: studies in the Civil War era
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-300) and index.
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G 2019/3006
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74VKVx7JvvqA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVx7JvvqA
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9780813941196 hardcover alkaline paper
0813941199 hardcover alkaline paper
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973.64
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991024246471602626
