TY - BOOK ID - 137283165 TI - Free soil, free labor, free men PY - 1995 SN - 0199879982 1283113333 9786613113337 0199762260 9780199762262 9780199879984 0195094972 9780195094978 0195090818 0195013522 9780195013528 9780195099812 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). KW - United States KW - History KW - Causes. KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137283165 AB - Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing on such issues as ER -