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Jonathan Earle, "Contingency and the Canvass: Understanding the Twists and Turns of the 1860 Election"

le 22 novembre 2011

Dans le cadre du séminaire de recherche "De la démocratie en Amérique", co-animé par Naomi Wulf et Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (CREW, EA 4399).

Conférence de Jonathan Earle (University of Kansas), le mardi 22 novembre, de 17h à 19h à l'Institut du Monde anglophone, petit Amphi, 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine.

"Contingency and the Canvass: Understanding the Twists and Turns of the 1860 Election."

Mr. Earle will focus on three events that threw the race into turmoil: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the surprise emergence of Lincoln as the Republican nominee, and the intense campaign to woo German voters (especially German Protestants) in the crucial states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Jonathan Earle est l'auteur de Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (UNC Press, 2004), SHEAR prize, et de John Brown's Raid: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford St Martins Press, 2008).

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