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A Strife of Tongues
- The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War
Af: Stephen E. Maizlish
Engelsk
Bogcover for A Strife of Tongues af Stephen E. Maizlish, 9780813941196
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Engelsk
Sider:
346
ISBN-13:
9780813941196
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0813941199
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Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2018
Størrelse i cm:
16,3 x 23,7 x 2,8
Forlag:
Serie:
A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2018
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A Strife of Tongues

- The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War
Af: Stephen E. Maizlish
Engelsk
Hardback 2018
Format:
Hardback
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Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that ""words become things."" Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But while the legislative maneuvering, factional alignments, and specific measures of the Compromise of 1850 have been exhaustively studied, much of the language of the debate, where underlying beliefs and assumptions were revealed, has been neglected. The Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War—which would be free, which would allow slavery, and how the Fugitive Slave Law would be enacted. A Strife of Tongues tells the cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal political event through the lens of language, revealing the complex context of northern and southern ideological opposition within which the Civil War occurred a decade later. Deftly drawing on extensive records, from public discourse to private letters, Stephen Maizlish animates the most famous political characters of the age in their own words. This novel account reveals a telling irony—that the Compromise debates of 1850 only made obvious the hardening of sectional division of ideology, which led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the antebellum period and laid the foundations of the U.S. Civil War.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
346
ISBN-13:
9780813941196
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0813941199
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2018
Størrelse i cm:
16,3 x 23,7 x 2,8
Forlag:
Serie:
A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2018
Forfatter(e):
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