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Author:   John Niven (The Claremont Graduate School)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.218kg
ISBN:  

9780882958613

ISBN 10:   0882958615
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   08 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Foreword vii Preface xi Chronology of Events xiii Introduction 1 Genesis of Colonial Slavery 2 The Constitutional Debate on Slavery 5 Regional Development and New Discord 7 Impact of Reform 13 Chapter One: Tensions 18 Abolitionism and National Politics 19 Emerging Sectionalism 22 States’ Rights: Theory and Practice 26 Depression and the Second American Party System 29 Southern Fears 34 The High Tide of Reform 37 Chapter Two: A Temporary Armistice 45 Tippecanoe, Tyler, and Texas 46 Expansion and War with Mexico 49 Stalemate 54 California and Compromise 58 A Prophetic Statement 64 Chapter Three: Kansas, First Phase 69 Whig Disintegration 71 Young America 74 The Kansas-Nebraska Bill 79 Birth of the Republican Party 85 Bleeding Kansas 87 Chapter Four: Disruption 96 The Election of 1856 97 Dred Scott 99 Kansas, Second Phase 104 Lincoln and Douglas 109 John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 113 Panic and Political Paralysis 115 Chapter Five: Disunion 121 The Election of 1860 121 The Lower South Secedes 130 Buchanan and the National Crisis 131 War Begins 137 Bibliographical Explanations 144 Index 175 Maps The United States in 1850 44 The Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854 68 The Election of 1860 120  

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John Niven is the author of The Coming of the Civil War: 1837 - 1861, published by Wiley.

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