James L Huston

Gebundenes Buch

Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality

Beschreibung

In this engaging new biography, James L. Huston explores the political life of Stephen A. Douglas and his definition and promotion of the ideal of democratic equality. By placing Douglas in the current historiographical controversies of the antebellum period, Huston updates our understanding of Douglas and the battles that he fought over the meaning democracy and its institutional framework in the building of the Democratic party, the struggle over slavery's extension into the West, the meaning of popular sovereignty and the legitimacy of peaceful secession from the Union.

Autor

James L. Huston is Regents' Professor of History at Oklahoma State University Stillwater. He is the author of Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War, Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900, and The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780742534568
• ISBN-10: 0742534561
• Artikelnr.: 21459108