A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. presidents who served in the significant period between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861. Explores and evaluates the evolving scholarly reception of Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, including their roles, behaviors, triumphs, and failures Represents the first single–volume reference to gather together the historiographic literature on the Antebellum Presidents Brings together original contributions from a team of eminent historians and experts on the American presidency Reveals insights into presidential leadership in the quarter century leading up to the American Civil War Offers fresh perspectives into the largely forgotten men who served during one of the most decisive quarter centuries of United States history INDICE: 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 C. 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
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3912-3
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2014
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- Idioma: Inglés