The Election of 1860 Reconsidered.

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Main Author: Fuller, A. James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ashland : The Kent State University Press, 2013.
Series:Civil War in the North.
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Table of Contents:
  • Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Election of 1860 Reconsidered; 1. The Political Organizer: Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Campaign; 2. The 1860 Southern Sojourns of Stephen A. Douglas and the Irrepressible Separation; 3. A Forlorn Hope: Interpreting the Breckinridge Campaign as a Matter of Honor; 4. The Last True Whig: John Bell and the Politics of Compromise in 1860; 5. Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionist Response to the Election of 1860.
  • 6. Saving the Republic: Turnout, Ideology, and Republicanism in the Election of 18607. The Election of 1860 and Political Realignment Theory: Indiana as a Case Study; 8. The View from Abroad: Europeans Look at the Election of 1860; 9. "An Inscrutable Election?": The Historiography of the Election of 1860; Contributors; Index.