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A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837 - 1861


A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837 - 1861


Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History 1. Aufl.

von: Joel H. Silbey

181,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 06.01.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9781118609293
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 496

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<p><i>A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents </i>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.</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Represents the first single-volume reference to gather together the historiographic literature on the Antebellum Presidents</li> <li>Brings together original contributions from a team of eminent historians and experts on the American presidency</li> <li>Reveals insights into presidential leadership in the quarter century leading up to the American Civil War</li> <li>Offers fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history</li> </ul>
Notes on Contributors vii <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Joel H. Silbey</i></p> <p><b>Part I General Themes 5</b></p> <p>1. The Political World of the Antebellum Presidents 7<br /> <i>Joel H. Silbey</i></p> <p>2. The Expansionist Impulse in Antebellum America 43<br /> <i>Michael A. Morrison</i></p> <p>3. The Rise of Sectional Tensions: Parties, Slavery, and Abolitionism 65<br /> <i>Nicole Etcheson</i></p> <p>4. The Antebellum Presidents and Foreign Policy 89<br /> <i>Jay Sexton</i></p> <p><b>Part II The Presidents 107</b></p> <p>5. Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson’s Right Hand 109<br /> <i>M. Philip Lucas</i></p> <p>6. Van Buren and the Economic Collapse of the Late 1830s 131<br /> <i>Jonathan M. Atkins</i></p> <p>7. “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”: William Henry Harrison and the Rise of Popular Politics 155<br /> <i>William G. Shade</i></p> <p>8. President John Tyler, Henry Clay, and the Whig Party 173<br /> <i>Edward P. Crapol</i></p> <p>9. James K. Polk and the Democratic Party 195<br /> <i>M. J. Heale</i></p> <p>10. Polk in Office: Domestic Politics and Policies 221<br /> <i>Paul H. Bergeron</i></p> <p>11. Polk as a War President 245<br /> <i>John C. Pinheiro</i></p> <p>12. Polk as a Southern Sectionalist 269<br /> <i>Michael Todd Landis</i></p> <p>13. Zachary Taylor in Office: Clay, the Whig Party, and the Sectional Crisis 291<br /> <i>Michael J. Birkner</i></p> <p>14. Millard Fillmore, Whig Politician and Leader of His Party 309<br /> <i>Damon R. Eubank</i></p> <p>15. President Fillmore and the Taming of Sectional Tensions 327<br /> <i>Elizabeth R. Varon</i></p> <p>16. Franklin Pierce, Democratic Partisan 345<br /> <i>Yonatan Eyal</i></p> <p>17. Franklin Pierce, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and the Political Transformation of the Mid-1850s 367<br /> <i>John F. Kirn, Jr.</i></p> <p>18. James Buchanan: The Early Political Life of the Old Public Functionary 397<br /> <i>Jean H. Baker</i></p> <p>19. James Buchanan, the Slavocracy, and the Disruption of the Democratic Party 421<br /> <i>James L. Huston</i></p> <p>20. James Buchanan and the Secession Crisis 447<br /> <i>John Ashworth</i></p> <p>Index 465</p>
<p>“Provocative and modestly revisionist, this enlightening collection should be the first-choice volume for anyone interested in the political historiography of the antebellum presidents.”  (<i>Presidential Studies Quarterly</i>, 28 July 2015)</p> <p>“Offers fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history.”  (<i>E</i><i>xpofairs.com</i>, 17 December 2014)</p> <p> </p>
<p><b>Joel H. Silbey</b> is Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University. His books include <i>Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics</i> (2002), <i>Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War</i> (2005), and <i>Party Over Section: The Election of 1848</i> (2009).</p>
<p>While the nation expanded to become a continental power, the decades leading up to the Civil War were turbulent times for America.  <i>A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents</i> offers a series of original essays that represent our current historical understanding of the eight U.S. presidents who served between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861.</p> <p>Featuring contributions by leading experts in American history, individual readings explore, explain, and evaluate the evolving scholarly reception of Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan – their roles, behaviors, triumphs, and failures. A wide variety of topics and themes are explored, including leadership issues during the period that culminated in the dangerous growth of sectional turmoil, leading ultimately to Southern secession and a civil war. Neither charismatic nor larger than life, these presidents are often characterized as rather ordinary men, yet they shaped the direction of the country during a critical period of U.S. history. Thought-provoking and scholarly, <i>A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents</i> brings new insights and fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history.</p>

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