The Birth of the Grand Old Party : : The Republicans' First Generation /

The Birth of the Grand Old Party : : The Republicans' First Generation / / ed. by Robert F. Engs, Randall M. Miller.

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The period from 1850 to 1876 was the most transformative era in American history. During the course of this tumultuous quarter century Americans fought a bloody civil war, tried to settle the issue of state versus central government power, recognized the dominance of the new industrial economy over...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Jean H.,
Foner, Eric,
Holt, Michael F.,
McPherson, James M.,
Neely, Mark E.,
Paludan, Phillip Shaw,
HerausgeberIn:
Engs, Robert F.,
Miller, Randall M.,
TeilnehmendeR:
McPherson, James M.
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2002
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 49 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Ideology of the Republican Party
  • CHAPTER TWO. Making and Mobilizing the Republican Party, 1854-1860
  • CHAPTER THREE. War Is the Health of the Party: Republicans in the American Civil War
  • The Genesis and Growth of the Republican Party: A Brief History
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Politics Purified: Religion and the Growth of Antislavery Idealism in Republican Ideology During the Civil War
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Defining Postwar Republicanism: Congressional Republicans and the Boundaries of Citizenship
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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