1st Edition
The Politics of Dissolution Quest for a National Identity and the American Civil War
By Marshall DeRosa
Copyright 1998
376 Pages
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Routledge
356 Pages
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Routledge
712 Pages
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Routledge
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This collection of late antebellum U.S. Senate speeches exemplifies the official statements of the public men from the South, North, and West as they struggled with the questions of national identity and the right of self-government within the context of the rule of law.
1: Party Platforms for the Election of 1860; 2: This Modern Revolution; 3: Constitutional Compromise; 4: Preserve the Union; 5: War Will Follow; 6: The Reign of Sectionalism; 7: Slavery Agitation As Partisan Warfare; 8: Pulling Down the Political Temple; 9: The Instincts of Empire; 10: The Enlargement of Empire; 11: Senate Resignations; 12: The Right of Secession; 13: The Momentous Issue of Civil War
Biography
Marshall DeRosa
