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BL
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1047907
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b802277
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| Main Entry
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Morrison, Michael A.,1948-2017
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| Title & Author
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Slavery and the American West : : the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War /\ Michael A. Morrison.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill ;London :: The University of North Carolina Press,, [1997]
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, ©1997
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1 online resource (xii, 396 pages)
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| ISBN
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0807864323
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: 9780807864326
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0807823198
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9780807823194
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-388) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Sectionalism (United States)
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Slavery-- United States-- Extension to the territories.
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HISTORY.
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Sectionalism (United States)
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Slavery-- Extension to the territories.
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Territorial expansion.
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War-- Causes.
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Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
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Slavernij.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes.
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United States, Territorial expansion.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.7/11
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| LC Classification
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E415.7.M88 1997eb
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15.85bcl
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15.85.bcl
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