Political Thought Among the American Whig

FAIN: FA-11300-75

Daniel Walker Howe
UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)

To write on intellectual history of the Whig Party in the H.S. from its emergence around 1830 to its demise in the 1850's. Emphasis is placed on writers who were influential in their day and who also articulated essential assumptions of the Whig outlook. Project will synthesize the findings of those historians who have stressed economic issues with those who stress ethno-religious divisions.