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Paperback The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861 Book

ISBN: 1469671433

ISBN13: 9781469671437

The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861

(Part of the Civil War America Series)

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This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown's raid revealed that white manhood and its association with familial and national protection meant disparate--and...

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