Washington brotherhood : politics, social life, and the coming of the Civil War, Rachel A. Shelden, the University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

The Resource Washington brotherhood : politics, social life, and the coming of the Civil War, Rachel A. Shelden, the University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
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Washington brotherhood : politics, social life, and the coming of the Civil War, Rachel A. Shelden, the University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
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politics, social life, and the coming of the Civil War
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Rachel A. Shelden, the University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index
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Introduction: the Washington fraternity in the mid-ninenteenth century -- Prologue: the politician's landscape in antebellum Washington -- A perfect Tower of Babel: the culture of congress and the Wilmot Proviso -- Odd fellows, teetotalers, and Young Indians: Washington associations and the election of 1848 -- Behind the curtain where great men relax: capital social life and the Compromise of 1850 -- An F Street mess: federal living arrangements and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 -- The most immoral and corrupt place in the Union: vice, violence, and the caning of Charles Sumner -- We know no Lecompton here: cross-partisan relationships and the fight over Kansas -- Like taking a last leave of a brother: the Washington Community faces the secession crisis -- Epilogue: the Washington brotherhood in war and peace
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25 cm.
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xiii, 281 pages
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9781469610856
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2013022516
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illustrations, maps, plans
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