Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men is written by Eric Foner and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199879982 (ISBN 10) and 9780199879984 (ISBN 13).

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. In his 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 work, gender, economic change, and political thought.