A companion to the antebellum presidents, 1837-1861 /
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
2014.
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| Series: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history. Presidential companions.
Presidential companions. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Joel H. Silbey
- General themes.
- The political world of the antebellum presidents / Joel H. Silbey
- The expansionist impulse in antebellum America / Michael A. Morrison
- The rise of sectional tensions; parties, slavery and abolitionism / Nicole Etcheson
- The antebellum presidents and foreign policy / Jay Sexton
- The presidents.
- Martin Van Buren as party leader and at Jackson's right hand / M. Philip Lucas
- Van Buren and the economic collapse of the 1830s / Jonathan M. Atkins
- "Tippecanoe and Tyler too": William Henry Harrison and the rise of popular politics / William G. Shade
- President John Tyler, Henry Clay and the Whig Party / Edward Crapol
- James K. Polk and the Democratic Party / M.J. Heale
- Polk in office: domestic politics and policies / Paul Bergeron
- Polk as a war president / John Pinhiero
- Polk as a southern sectionalist / Michael Todd Landis
- Zachary Taylor in office: Clay, the Whig Party, and the sectional crisis / Michael J. Birkner
- Millard Fillmore, Whig politician and leader of his party / Damon Eubank
- President Fillmore and the taming of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon
- Franklin Pierce, democratic partisan / Yonatan Eyal
- Franklin Pierce, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and the political transformation of the mid-1850s / John F. Kim, Jr
- James Buchanan: the early political life of the old public functionary / Jean H. Baker
- James Buchanan, the slavocracy and the disruption of the Democratic Party / James Huston
- James Buchanan and the secession crisis / John Ashworth.