Partnership, pp. 1–69, 131–43, 265–9; John Lauritz Larson, Internal Improvement National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the early United States (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001); Ronald P. Formisano, State Development in the early Republic Substance and Structure, 1780–1840,” in Byron E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger, eds, Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000 (Lawrence, KS, 2001), 24–6. 43. Rohrbough, Land Office Business; John, Spreading the News; Satz, Jacksonian Indian Policy; Culver H. Smith, Press, Politics, and Patronage The American Government’s Use of Newspapers, 1789–1875 (Athens, GA, Richard H. Brown, The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and the Politics of Jacksonianism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 65 (1966), pp. 55–72; Ratcliffe, Nullification Crisis pp. Charles G. Sellers, Who were the Southern Whigs American Historical Review 59 (pp. 335–46; Richard P. McCormick, The Second American Party System Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (Chapel Hill, NC, 1966); Joel H. Silbey, The Shrine of Party Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841–1852 (Pittsburgh, PA, 1967) and The Partisan Imperative The Dynamics of American Politics before the Civil War (New York and Oxford, 1985); Michael F. Holt, The Political Crisis of the s (New York, 1978), esp. pp. 17–38, and Holt, American Whig Party, pp. Harry L. Watson, Liberty and Power The Politics of Jacksonian America (New York, Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 (New York, Donald J. Ratcliffe, The Crisis of Commercialization National Political Alignments and the Market Revolution, 1819–1844,” in Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds, The “Market Revolution” in America Politics, Religion, and Society, 1800–1880 (Charlottesville, VA, pp. Douglass C. North, Economic Growth of the United States, 1790–1860 (New York, 1961); Silbey, Shrine of Party. The complex web of interlocking interests between the sections—political, cultural, ecclesiastical, associational—before 1848 is richly revealed in Howe, What Hath God Wrought. 48. Stanley Coben, Northeastern Business and Radical Reconstruction a Reexamination,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 46 (1959), pp. 67–90; Philip S. Foner, Business and Slavery: New York Merchants and the Irrepressible Conflict (Chapel Hill, NC, 1941); James L. Huston, The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War (Baton Rouge, LA, Donald L. Robinson, Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765–1820 (New York, Jordan, White over Black. 50. Robinson, Slavery in the Structure of American Politics; Glover Moore, The Missouri Controversy (Lexington, KY, 1953). Too many historians, including Moore, underestimate the power of Northern antislavery sentiment—conservative and racist as it was—before 1830; see Ratcliffe, “The Decline of Antislavery Politics, 1815–1840,” in Matthew Mason and John Craig Hammond, eds, Contesting Slavery The Politics of Slavery in the New American Nation (Charlottesville, VA, 2009). 51. Risjord, Old Republicans, esp. p. 242; Brown, Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and Politics of Jacksonianism”; Freehling, Prelude to Civil War. 52. John, Spreading the News, pp. 257–80; Lorman Ratner, Powder Keg Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831–1840 (New York, 1968); Ratcliffe, Decline of Antislavery Politics.” 53. James C. N. Pauli Rift in the Democracy (Philadelphia, PA, 1951); Holt, Political Crisis, pp. David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 (New York, Shaw Livermore, The Twilight of Federalism, 1815–1830 (Princeton, NJ, 1967), pp. 95–7; John Craig Hammond, Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West (Charlottesville, VA, 2007). The term Yankee properly referred to people from New England. 56. John McCardell, The Idea of a Southern Nation Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830–1860 (New York, 1979); David M. Potter, The Historian’s use of Nationalism, and vice versa in Potter, The South and the Sectional Conflict (Baton Rouge, LA, 1968), esp. pp. 60–83. The internal variety and disunity of the South are emphasized in William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854 (New York, 1990); 34 • Donald Ratcliffe
William G. Shade, Democratizing the Old Dominion Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824–1861 (Charlottesville, VA, 1996). Mark E. Nackman, The Rise of Texas Nationalism A Nation within a Nation (Port Washington, NY, 1975), esp. p. 149 n. Holden Reid, Origins of American Civil War, pp. 158–65, 180–1, 192–3, 203–14, 228–31, and references therein. 59. Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster The Man and his Times (New York, 1998), pp. Ibid, pp. 131–47, 157–70, 175, 179–87; Grant, North over South. See also Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York and Oxford, 1970); Susan-Mary Grant, When is a Nation not a Nation The Crisis of American Nationality in the Mid-nineteenth Century Nations and Nationalism 2 (1996), pp. Holden Reid, Origins of American Civil War, pp. 170–4, 214–20, 238–9, and the references therein. See also Timberlake, Origins of Central Banking, p. 82; Elazar, American Partnership, pp. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 245; Holden Reid, Origins of American Civil War, pp. 234, 240–4, 267–78, 297–9, 310–11, 348–63; Peter J. Parish, The Road not quite Taken The Constitution of the Confederate States of America in Thomas J. Barron, Owen Dudley Edwards, and Patricia J. Storey, eds, Constitutions and National Identity (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865 (New York, 1979); Kenneth M. Stampp, The Southern Road to Appomattox in Stampp, Imperiled Union, pp. 246–69. 64. Susan-Mary Grant, The charter of its birthright The Civil War and American Nationalism,” Nations and Nationalism 4 (1998), pp. 163–85, and references therein Morton Keller, Affairsof State Public Life in late Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge, MA, 1977). 65. Nagel, One Nation Indivisible; Peter Knupfer, The Union as it is Constitutional Unionism andSectional Compromise (Chapel Hill, NC, The State of the Union • Share with your friends: |