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A companion to the antebellum presidents, 1837-1861
- Title
- A companion to the antebellum presidents, 1837-1861 / edited by Joel H. Silbey.
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- ©2014
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Silbey, Joel H.
- Description
- x, 483 pages; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Wiley Blackwell companions to American history
- Presidential companions
- Uniform Title
- Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history.
- Blackwell companions to American history. Presidential companions.
- Alternative Title
- Antebellum presidents
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Joel H. Silbey -- General themes. -- The political world of the antebellum presidents / Joel H. Silbey -- The expansionist impulse in antebellum America / Michael A. Morrison -- The rise of sectional tensions; parties, slavery, and abolitionism / Nicole Etcheson -- The antebellum presidents and foreign policy / Jay Sexton -- The presidents. -- Martin Van Buren as party leader and at Andrew Jackson's right hand / M. Philip Lucas -- Van Buren and the economic collapse of the late 1830s / Jonathan M. Atkins -- "Tippecanoe and Tyler too": William Henry Harrison and the rise of popular politics / William G. Shade -- President John Tyler, Henry Clay and the Whig Party / Edward Crapol -- James K. Polk and the Democratic Party / M.J. Heale -- Polk in office: domestic politics and policies / Paul H. Bergeron -- Polk as a war president / John Pinhiero -- Polk as a southern sectionalist / Michael Todd Landis -- Zachary Taylor in office: Clay, the Whig Party, and the sectional crisis / Michael J. Birkner -- Millard Fillmore, Whig politician and leader of his party / Damon Eubank -- President Fillmore and the taming of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon -- Franklin Pierce, democratic partisan / Yonatan Eyal -- Franklin Pierce, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and the political transformation of the mid-1850s / John F. Kim, Jr -- James Buchanan: the early political life of the old public functionary / Jean H. Baker -- James Buchanan, the slavocracy and the disruption of the Democratic Party / James Huston -- James Buchanan and the secession crisis / John Ashworth.
- Call Number
- E386
- ISBN
- 9781444339123
- 1444339125
- LCCN
- 2013043814
- OCLC
- 881463087
- Title
- A companion to the antebellum presidents, 1837-1861 / edited by Joel H. Silbey.
- Publisher
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Wiley Blackwell companions to American historyPresidential companionsWiley-Blackwell companions to American history.Blackwell companions to American history. Presidential companions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Silbey, Joel H., editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Companion to the antebellum presidents. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014 9781118609293 (DLC) 2013044449
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG E386 .C68 2014