Background
Sinha, Manisha was born on November 2, 1962 in Patna, Bihar, India. Arrived in the United States, 1984. Daughter of Srinivas Kumar and Premini Verma Sinha.
(In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology i...)
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery. Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important reevaluation of the movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s. In the process she reveals the central role played by South Carolina planter politicians in developing proslavery ideology and the use of states' rights and constitutional theory for the defense of slavery. Sinha's work underscores the necessity of integrating the history of slavery with the traditional narrative of southern politics. Only by taking into account the political importance of slavery, she insists, can we arrive at a complete understanding of southern politics and the enormity of the issues confronting both northerners and southerners on the eve of the Civil War.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807848840/?tag=2022091-20
Sinha, Manisha was born on November 2, 1962 in Patna, Bihar, India. Arrived in the United States, 1984. Daughter of Srinivas Kumar and Premini Verma Sinha.
Bachelor, Delhi University, 1984. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1986. Master of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1988.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1994.
Preceptor, instructor Columbia University, New York City, 1988—1992. Fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992—1994, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994—1995. Assistant professor University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994—2000, associate professor, since 2001.
Manuscript reader Journal Southern History, Houston, since 2000, Civil War History, University Park, Pennsylvania, since 2000, Journal Early Republic, Lafayette, Indiana, since 2000.
(In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology i...)
Speaker Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities, Boston, 1997, Connecticut Humanities Council, Litchfield, 1999, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 2001. Member of Association Study of African American Life and History, Southern History Organization, Organization American Historians (Distinguished lecturer), American History Association (local arrangements committee 2001).
Married Karsten R. Stueber. 1 child Sheel K. Stueber.