Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Creating Democracy, 1813-1840
Chapter 2: Democracy, Commerce, and Manifest Destiny
Chapter 3: The Compromise of 1850
Chapter 4: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and its Aftermath, 1851-1856
Chapter 5: Popular Sovereignty Fails: The Lecompton Constitution Battle, 1857-1859
Chapter 6: The Election of 1860
Chapter 7: Secession and the Limits of Democracy, 1860-1861
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James L. Huston

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James L Huston, James L. Huston, Huston James L.
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.12.2006
• EAN: 9780742534568
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3456-8
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: American Profiles (Rowman & Li; American Profiles
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; North America, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas