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Slavery and the American West : the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War

Author: Michael A Morrison
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael A Morrison
ISBN: 0807823198 9780807823194
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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