Correspondence of James K. Polk: Vol 14, April 1848-June 1849 - Image 1

£86.29

Univ Tennessee Press Correspondence of James K. Polk: Vol 14, April 1848-June 1849

Name: Correspondence of James K. Polk: Vol 14, April 1848-June 1849
Brand: Univ Tennessee Press
Price: 86.29 GBP
Availability: InStock

Political Leaders & Leadership

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 8 months ago.

£86 today · all-time low £86 (Oct 2025) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 151 days • 151 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 151 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £86 (59 days, 39.1%)

Price range: £86 - £116

Price levels: 4 different prices over 151 days

Description

The final volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk documents the end of a presidency and the end of a life. With the Mexican War over, Polk focused on integrating new lands into the country, resolving discord over slavery, and planning for a retirement that proved all too short. His letters of April 1848 to June 1849 reveal his and his contemporaries’ thoughts on a nation racing from an international conflict toward a civil war. Having won half of Mexico’s land, Polk wanted to create territorial or state governments for New Mexico and California. He chafed under Congress’s inability to agree on whether to permit slavery there. Clashes in New Mexico, Oregon, and YucatÁn, meanwhile, involved Americans in further violence. Like many Americans, Polk welcomed the republican revolutions that swept Europe. But he soon learned that conservative armies were reversing those gains. From here at home, he received petitions by Native Americans to remedy ill treatment by an administration intent on their removal. Though he refused to seek reelection, Polk closely followed the presidential campaign of 1848. Stung by the victory of Zachary Taylor, one of his chief generals and now a leading Whig, he still happily left the White House for his retirement in Nashville. In his new mansion he hoped to rest and socialize while continuing to profit from the labor of slaves on his Mississippi plantation. His voyage home, alas, took Polk through a US entry point of a worldwide cholera pandemic. He arrived in Tennessee ill and died only three months after leaving office. Others were left to mourn the fifty-three-year-old, to assess his legacy, and to deal with the consequences of his actions. Right to the end, Polk corresponded with diverse men and women. This volume includes letters by future presidents, to a past first lady, and by the newly installed Vicaire of the German Empire. It includes letters by pro-annexation Cubans, to India’s poet laureate, and by a planter who would become one of the earliest female physicians. Presented here with full annotation, they illuminate politics, diplomacy, economy, and culture. This volume concludes a six-decade-long project to render accessible key primary sources in US history. From slave escapes to presidential lies and from gas lighting to temperance reform, the letters herein expose controversy and change at the end of one of America’s most consequential presidencies.

Product Specifications

Brand: Univ Tennessee Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1621906477
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Political > Political Leaders & Leadership
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 June 2020
Listed Since: 29 May 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Univ Tennessee Press Correspondence of James K. Polk: Vol 14, April 1848-June 1849

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 8 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Captain Bulloch: The Life of James Dunwoody Bulloch, Naval Agent of the Confederacy

The Papers of James Madison: 8 February - 24 October 1813 v. 6: Presidential Series (Papers of James Madison. Presidential): 06

Corr James K Polk Vol 7: 007 (Utp Correspondence James Polk): Volume 7

The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868 - April 1869 Volume 15 (UTP Papers Andrew Johnson)

American History, with PowerWeb

Encyclopedia of American History (Facts on File Library of American History)

Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891

Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Uses of Nationalism

The Papers of Andrew Jackson 1832: Volume 10 (Utp Papers Andrew Jackson): Volume 10, 1832

The Papers of George Washington: Volume 17: 1 October 1794-31 March 1795 (Presidential Series)

Adams Family Correspondence: v. 3 & 4 (Adams Papers): April 1778 – September 1782: Volumes 3 and 4

Edmund Morris's Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt

Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 63 – September–November 5, 1919

Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self: 36 (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)

The Early National Period (Eyewitness History)

Lincoln's Enduring Legacy: Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

The Jacksonian and Antebellum Eras: Documents Decoded

Souvenirs et recits

Lesser-known Women: A Biographical Dictionary

Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy

Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

President James K. Polk: The Dark Horse President (First Men, America's Presidents)

The Arthur H. Clark Company: An Americana Century, 1902–2002