| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Slavery and the American West/ Michael A. Morrison. |
| Reminder of title: |
the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War / |
| Author: |
Morrison, Michael A., |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press, : c1997., |
| Description: |
xii, 396 p.25 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Sectionalism (United States) - |
| Subject: |
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=104004An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0807864323 (electronic bk.) |