Joel H. Silbey

A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837 - 1861

Herausgeber: Silbey, Joel H

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. presidents who served in the significant period between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861.

Explores and evaluates the evolving scholarly reception of Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, including their roles, behaviors, triumphs, and failures
Represents the first single-volume reference to gather together the historiographic literature on the Antebellum Presidents
Brings together original contributions from a team of eminent historians and experts on the American presidency
Reveals insights into presidential leadership in the quarter century leading up to the American Civil War
Offers fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to American History
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339123
• ISBN-10: 1444339125
• Artikelnr.: 39380683

Autorenporträt

Joel H. Silbey is Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University. His books include Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics (2002), Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War (2005), and Party Over Section: The Election of 1848 (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Joel H. Silbey Part I General
Themes 5 1. The Political World of the Antebellum Presidents 7 Joel H.
Silbey 2. The Expansionist Impulse in Antebellum America 43 Michael A.
Morrison 3. The Rise of Sectional Tensions: Parties, Slavery, and
Abolitionism 65 Nicole Etcheson 4. The Antebellum Presidents and Foreign
Policy 89 Jay Sexton Part II The Presidents 107 5. Martin Van Buren as
Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand 109 M. Philip Lucas 6. Van
Buren and the Economic Collapse of the Late 1830s 131 Jonathan M. Atkins 7.
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too": William Henry Harrison and the Rise of Popular
Politics 155 William G. Shade 8. President John Tyler, Henry Clay, and the
Whig Party 173 Edward P. Crapol 9. James K. Polk and the Democratic Party
195 M. J. Heale 10. Polk in Office: Domestic Politics and Policies 221 Paul
H. Bergeron 11. Polk as a War President 245 John C. Pinheiro 12. Polk as a
Southern Sectionalist 269 Michael Todd Landis 13. Zachary Taylor in Office:
Clay, the Whig Party, and the Sectional Crisis 291 Michael J. Birkner 14.
Millard Fillmore, Whig Politician and Leader of His Party 309 Damon R.
Eubank 15. President Fillmore and the Taming of Sectional Tensions 327
Elizabeth R. Varon 16. Franklin Pierce, Democratic Partisan 345 Yonatan
Eyal 17. Franklin Pierce, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and the Political
Transformation of the Mid-1850s 367 John F. Kirn, Jr. 18. James Buchanan:
The Early Political Life of the Old Public Functionary 397 Jean H. Baker
19. James Buchanan, the Slavocracy, and the Disruption of the Democratic
Party 421 James L. Huston 20. James Buchanan and the Secession Crisis 447
John Ashworth Index 465

Rezensionen

"Offers fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history." (Expofairs.com, 17 December 2014)

"Offers fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history." (Native American Encyclopedia, 24 January 2014)