Essays on American Antebellum politics, 1840-1860 / by William E. Gienapp ... [et al.] ; introduction by Thomas J. Pressly ; edited by Stephen E. Maizlish and John J. Kushma.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gienapp, William E., Maizlish, Stephen E., 1945-, Kushma, John J., 1949-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington, by Texas A&M University Press, c1982.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 16.
Subjects:	United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.

Table of Contents:

"Politics seem to enter into everything": political culture in the North, 1840-1860 / William E. Gienapp
The dimensions of voter partisan constancy in presidential elections from 1840 to 1860 / Thomas B. Alexander
Winding roads to recovery: the Whig Party from 1844 to 1848 / Michael F. Holt
The meaning of nativism and the crisis of the Union: the Know-Nothing movement in the Antebellum North / Stephen E. Maizlish
The surge of Republican power: partisan antipathy, American social conflict, and the coming of the Civil War / Joel H. Silbey.

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