| Description |
xii, 396 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p.281-388) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories
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Sectionalism (United States)
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
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United States -- Territorial expansion
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| ISBN |
0807823198 |
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