John Ashworth

Gebundenes Buch

Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic

Beschreibung

This book asks why the United States experienced a civil war in 1861 and analyses the descent into war in the final decade of peace.

Autor

John Ashworth was born in Lancashire, England, and studied at the Universities of Lancaster and Oxford. He is currently Professor of American History in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Professor Ashworth is the author of 'Agrarians' and 'Aristocrats': Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837-1846, of Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850 (both of which were published by Cambridge University Press), and of numerous articles and reviews in learned journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1261g
• ISBN-13: 9780521885928
• ISBN-10: 0521885922
• Artikelnr.: 22950789