The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
| Author/creator | Holt, Michael F. Author |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Description | 1248 p. ill 06.200 x 09.250 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Summary | Annotation 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 time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and HenryClay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amidthis contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780195161045 |
| ISBN | 0195161041 (Trade Paper) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780195161045 |
| Stock number | 00020142 |
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