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Pages: 1298
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a ti
Language: en
Pages: 48
Pages: 48
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-25 - Publisher:
*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading When President Thomas Jefferson went ahead with the
Language: en
Pages: 414
Pages: 414
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a tem
Language: en
Pages: 307
Pages: 307
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Passionate political disagreement is as old as the American Republic, and the antebellum era—the thirty years before the Civil War—was as rife with partisan
Language: en
Pages: 148
Pages: 148
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.