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More American than southern : Kentucky, slavery, and the war for an American ideology, 1828-1861 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matthews, Gary Robert, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Kentucky > Politics and government > 1792-1865.
Slavery > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Political culture > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Kentucky > History > 1792-1865.
Secession > Kentucky.
Table of Contents:
  • Class structure
  • The paradigm
  • Subregional variances
  • The Whig era
  • The politics of economic development
  • Crisis and compromise
  • Party realignment
  • Cold war
  • The labyrinth of sectional politics
  • The secession crisis, part I
  • The secession crisis, part II
  • A hollow concept
  • Kentucky unionism
  • The end of an era.