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Lädt ... Baptism of fire : the Republican Party in Iowa, 1838-1878von Robert Cook
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4207 Baptism of Fire The Republican Party in Iowa, 1838-1878, by Robert Cook (read 7 Sep 2006) The author is a lecturer in American history at the University of Sheffield in England, but he has such a command of his subject one would never guess he was British. It is a study of the Republican Party in Iowa from 1856 to 1878 and is really a good book. The Republican Party gained its ascendancy in Iowa for a valid reason: it was more right on civil rights than was the Democratic party in Iowa. The party changed, of course, but it had become entrenched in Iowa by then and it remained the dominant party all thru the period studied. Many of the books listed in the good bibliography in this book I have read. James Grimes comes out looking like a great man, whereas James Harlan was something of a crook--which I had not realized even though I read a biography of him back in 1945. This is a well-researched book and tells interesting things about the politics of early Iowa. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The birth of the Republican party in the mid-1850s was one of the most remarkable political developments in U.S. history, for it resulted in the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. Baptism of Fire charts the party's progress in early Iowa, where its supporters battled hard (if not always consistently) for the rights of African-Americans and the prosperity of the trans-Mississippi West.
Chronological in framework and analytical in content, this book examines the origins and maturation of the virulently anti-Southern organization and emphasizes the significance of ethnocultural and economic issues to Iowans. It illustrates in absorbing detail how the Republicans were able to defeat the ruling Jacksonian Democratic party and take power before fighting a bloody and Internecine war against Southern whites and then hold off a new Democratic challenge during Reconstruction.
Baptism of Fire recreates the determined individuals who steered Iowa's antislavery coalition through the vicissitudes of a turbulent era. It also reviews some of the key themes of nineteenth-century American history, most notably the political and social impact of commercial growth, anti-Southern sectionalism, racial prejudice, evangelical religion, corruption, and factionalism. Based on extensive archival research and a quantitative analysis of the Iowa state legislature, Baptism of Fire confirms that the GOP was the party of progress and humanity in early American politics. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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