Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny

by Michael A. Morrison

Book Overview

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807823198
• ISBN13: 9780807823194
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary