Leonard L Richards

Broschiertes Buch

Slave Power

The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860

Beschreibung

Through biographical cameos and narrative vignettes, the author explains the evolution of the slave power argument over time, tracing the often repeated scenario of northern outcry against the perceived slavery, and revealing the importance of slavery in the structure of national politics.

Autor

Leonard L. Richards is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received the American Historical Association's Beveridge Prize for ""Gentlemen of Property and Standing"": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America. He is also the author of The Advent of American Democracy and The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780807126004
• ISBN-10: 0807126004
• Artikelnr.: 21117310