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03555aam a2200481 i 4500 001 91A0364E961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180802010035 008 180520t20182018vaua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018002827 020 $a 0813941199 020 $a 9780813941196 035 $a (OCoLC)1011028674 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E423 $b .M26 2018 082 00 $a 973.6/4 $2 23 100 1 $a Maizlish, Stephen E., $d 1945- $e author. 245 12 $a A strife of tongues : $b the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War / $c Stephen E. Maizlish. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xv, 312 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a A nation divided: studies in the Civil War era 520 $a "A Strife of Tongues analyzes the debates over the Compromise of 1850 to reveal the underlying assumptions and values of the North and the South a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Rather than examining voting patterns, factional alignments, legislative maneuvering, and specific measures of the Compromise, this account looks at the language of the debate, the words of the senators and representatives, to discover the concepts and beliefs that defined the North and the South as the sectional confrontation approached. To a large extent, these opposing ideologies had common roots and were based on shared assumptions. Northerners and southerners had similar views of gender and masculinity, pursued the common goal of capital accumulation, and were in fundamental agreement over the superiority of the white race. But conflicting views of slavery, and especially slavery expansion, led to the development of highly divergent systems of belief about politics, economics, and society that would sustain the deepening sectional division and eventually support separation. This examination of the language of the debate yields a novel account of the dynamic driving the crisis of 1850 and sectional conflict generally. The ideological formulations of the Compromise debates of 1850 laid the foundations of the American Civil War"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The slavery expansion issue: denied and affirmed -- Consensus and conflict: sectional unity, national division -- State equality, the transactional Union, and the Constitution -- State equality, the perpetual Union, and the people -- Conflicted commitments: slavery and race -- Images in conflict: society, economy, and gender -- The language of conflict and the battlefield of memory. 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 650 0 $a Compromise of 1850. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1849-1853. 651 0 $a United States $x Causes. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Causes. 650 7 $a Compromise of 1850. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00871927 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a War $x Causes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170331 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1849-1865 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Nation divided. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217024227.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20190808010101.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180905050238.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91A0364E961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search