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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morrison, Michael A., 1948- Slavery and the American West. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997 (OCoLC)606123672 Online version: Morrison, Michael A., 1948- Slavery and the American West. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997 (OCoLC)607765725 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael A Morrison |
| ISBN: | 9780807823194 0807823198 9780807847961 0807847968 |
| OCLC Number: | 34912654 |
| Description: | xii, 396 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | John Tyler's hobby: territorial expansion and Jacksonian politics -- Milton's devil: slavery restriction and the revolutionary heritage, 1820-1846 -- Washington redux: the whig party and the politics of slavery, 1846-1848 -- Tower of Babel: social ideology and the crisis of territorial organization, 1849-1850 -- Of Pegasus and Bellerophon: popular sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas, and the origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- A house dividing: the conspiracy thesis joined and defined -- To the egress: humbug and the disruption of the democracy -- The eclipse of manifest destiny and the disruption of the second party system. |
| Responsibility: | Michael A. Morrison. |
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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- Sectionalism (United States)
- Slavernij.
- Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
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- Sklaverei
- Geschichte 1830-1861.
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- Esclavage -- États-Unis.
- États-Unis -- Expansion territoriale.
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession).
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