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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men Eric Foner (Dewitt Professor of History, Dewitt Professor of History, Columbia University)

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men By Eric Foner (Dewitt Professor of History, Dewitt Professor of History, Columbia University)

Summary

Foner's famous book has been one of the most influential and successful works dealing with the factors that brought the North to fight the Civil War. Foner has now written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into the context of contemporary scholarship.

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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men Summary

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War: With a new Introductory Essay by Eric Foner (Dewitt Professor of History, Dewitt Professor of History, Columbia University)

Foner has written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into context of contemporary scholarship.

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men Reviews

First-rate in every respect...[A] work of genuine distinction, and a major contribution to ante-bellum political history.--Kenneth Stampp, author of The Imperiled Union Still the best book on the politics of the 1850's.--Norman B. Ferris, Middle Tennessee State University It's the best book on Republican ideology there is. Foner is among the very best Americanists ever. Bravo!--Harlow Sheidley, University of Colorado Foner's work remains the classic treatment of the subject!'--K.M. Startip, Williams Baptist College Excellent volume--Foner is always good anyway!--John F. McCormack, Delaware County Community College

About Eric Foner (Dewitt Professor of History, Dewitt Professor of History, Columbia University)

Eric Foner is Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Tom Paine and Revolutionary America and Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War.

Table of Contents

The Idea of Free Labor in Nineteenth-Century America Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Bibliography Introduction 1. Free Labor: The Republicans and Northern Society 2. The Republican Critique of the South 3. Salmon P. Chase: The Constitution and the Slave Power 4. THe Radicals: Anti-Slavery Politics and the Moral Imperative 5. The Democratic Republicans 6. Conservatives and Moderates 7. The Republicans and Nativism 8. The Republicans and Race 9. Slavery and the Republican Ideology Bibliography Index

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CIN0195094972VG
9780195094978
0195094972
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War: With a new Introductory Essay by Eric Foner (Dewitt Professor of History, Dewitt Professor of History, Columbia University)
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Oxford University Press Inc
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