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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 역사 > 미국 > 미국 일반
· ISBN : 9781444339123
· 쪽수 : 496쪽
· 출판일 : 2014-02-14
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Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Joel H. Silbey
Part I General Themes 5
1. The Political World of the Antebellum Presidents 7
Joel H. Silbey
2. The Expansionist Impulse in Antebellum America 43
Michael A. Morrison
3. The Rise of Sectional Tensions: Parties, Slavery, and Abolitionism 65
Nicole Etcheson
4. The Antebellum Presidents and Foreign Policy 89
Jay Sexton
Part II The Presidents 107
5. Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson’s Right Hand 109
M. Philip Lucas
6. Van Buren and the Economic Collapse of the Late 1830s 131
Jonathan M. Atkins
7. “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”: William Henry Harrison and the Rise of Popular Politics 155
William G. Shade
8. President John Tyler, Henry Clay, and the Whig Party 173
Edward P. Crapol
9. James K. Polk and the Democratic Party 195
M. J. Heale
10. Polk in Office: Domestic Politics and Policies 221
Paul H. Bergeron
11. Polk as a War President 245
John C. Pinheiro
12. Polk as a Southern Sectionalist 269
Michael Todd Landis
13. Zachary Taylor in Office: Clay, the Whig Party, and the Sectional Crisis 291
Michael J. Birkner
14. Millard Fillmore, Whig Politician and Leader of His Party 309
Damon R. Eubank
15. President Fillmore and the Taming of Sectional Tensions 327
Elizabeth R. Varon
16. Franklin Pierce, Democratic Partisan 345
Yonatan Eyal
17. Franklin Pierce, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and the Political Transformation of the Mid-1850s 367
John F. Kirn, Jr.
18. James Buchanan: The Early Political Life of the Old Public Functionary 397
Jean H. Baker
19. James Buchanan, the Slavocracy, and the Disruption of the Democratic Party 421
James L. Huston
20. James Buchanan and the Secession Crisis 447
John Ashworth
Index 465
