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Product Description: The presidential campaign of 1848 saw the first strong electoral challenge to the expansion of slavery in the United States; most historians consider the appearance of the Free Soil Party in that election a major turning point of the nineteenth century...read more
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9780700616404 | Univ Pr of Kansas, March 11, 2009, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The presidential campaign of 1848 saw the first strong electoral challenge to the expansion of slavery in the United States; most historians consider the appearance of the Free Soil Party in that election a major turning point of the nineteenth century.

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Product Description: In the spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union. This hard-fought and bitter controversy profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, it marked the crucial moment when partisan differences were transformed into a North-vs-South antagonism, and the momentum towards Civil War leaped into high gear...read more
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9780195315929 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union.

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An in-depth account of a crucial turning point in American history along the road to the Civil War reveals how partisan differences were transformed into a North-v.-South antagonism that caused the momentum toward the Civil War to go into high gear.
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9780195139440 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: An account of a crucial turning point in American history along the road to the Civil War reveals how partisan differences were transformed into a North-v.

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Product Description: Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day--Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren was a transforming political figure in American history, one of the first of the new republic's professional politicians...read more
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9780742522442 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 28, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day--Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C.

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Offers a biography of one of America's first professional politicians, highlighting Van Buren's contributions to the democratization of the American political process.
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9780742522435 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Offers a biography of one of America's first professional politicians, highlighting Van Buren's contributions to the democratization of the American political process.

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Product Description: Russian-American Dialogue on the History of U.S. Political Parties is the fourth volume in the Russian-American Dialogues series—a series that brings together scholars in the former Soviet Union and the United States who share an interest in the study of America's heritage and its importance to contemporary Russia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Louis W. Potts (editor), Joel H. Silbey (editor) and Eugene F. Yazkov (editor)
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9780826212764 | Univ of Missouri Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Russian-American Dialogue on the History of U.

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Product Description: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Joel H. Silbey (editor)
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9780674026421 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 31, 1999, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.

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Product Description: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Joel H. Silbey (editor)
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9780674026438 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 31, 1999, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.

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Product Description: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas...read more
By Joel H. Silbey (editor)
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9780674026452 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 31, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.

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Product Description: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America's then reigning sets of ideas...read more
By Joel H. Silbey (editor)
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9780674026469 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 31, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets.

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Product Description: For introductory American politics courses, this is a diverse collection of lively and provocative assessments of the evolution of American politics across the postwar period, focusing on these elements: parties, society, institutions, culture, issues, agendas, and coalitions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781566430500 | Chatham House Pub, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: For introductory American politics courses, this is a diverse collection of lively and provocative assessments of the evolution of American politics across the postwar period, focusing on these elements: parties, society, institutions, culture, issues, agendas, and coalitions.

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Includes 91 essays which examine the history, personnel, structure, elections, and policies of our legislative system
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9780684196015 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, January 1, 1996, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Includes 91 essays which examine the history, personnel, structure, elections, and policies of our legislative system
9780684196022 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, January 1, 1996, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Includes 91 essays which examine the history, personnel, structure, elections, and policies of our legislative system
9780684196008 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, January 1, 1996, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Includes 91 essays which examine the history, personnel, structure, elections, and policies of our legislative system

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Product Description: This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world.
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9780804718783 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world.

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9780804723381 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world.

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Includes 91 essays which examine the history, personnel, structure, elections, and policies of our legislative system
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9780684192437 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, January 1, 1994, cover price $375.00 | About this edition: Includes 91 essays which examine the history, personnel, structure, elections, and policies of our legislative system

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By Joel H. Silbey (editor)
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9780926019355 | Carlson Pub, October 1, 1991, cover price $225.00

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By Joel H. Silbey (editor)
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9780926019348 | Carlson Pub, May 1, 1991, cover price $225.00

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Product Description: In this provocative reinterpretation of American politics before the Civil War, Joel Silbey argues that local issues, ethnic and religious considerations, and the power of the national political parties were even more important than slavery in animating the political life of the era...read more
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9780195035513 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Was slavery really the most significant issue in American politics just before the Civil War?

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9780195041576 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In this provocative reinterpretation of American politics before the Civil War, Joel Silbey argues that local issues, ethnic and religious considerations, and the power of the national political parties were even more important than slavery in animating the political life of the era.

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9780691075907 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1978, cover price $62.50

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9780691100623 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $22.95

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