America in 1857 : a nation on the brink / Kenneth M. Stampp.
Record details
- ISBN: 0195039025 (alk. paper) :
- Physical Description: ix, 388 p. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index. |
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Subject: | United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | E 436 .S78 1990 | 30347269 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
America In 1857 : A Nation on the Brink
A native of Milwaukee, Kenneth Stampp received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1941 and then taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland. In 1945 he joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently Morrison Professor Emeritus of American History. Stampp has served as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford, Commonwealth Lecturer at the University of London, Fulbright Professor at the University of Munich, and visiting professor at Harvard University and Colgate University and Williams College. A past president of the Organization of American Historians, in 1993 he received the Lincoln Prize from the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute of Gettysburg College. Stampp touched off a revolution in the study of slavery with the publication of The Peculiar Institution (1956), which vigorously refutes the long-prevailing Dunning-Phillips interpretation and demolishes a host of myths about the master-slave relationship. His further works on the sectional conflict and its causes established him as a leading authority on that subject as well. (Bowker Author Biography)