Slavery and the American West
The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny
By Michael A. Morrison
416 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4796-1
Published: August 1999 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6432-6
Published: November 2000
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Michael A. Morrison, coeditor of the Journal of the Early Republic, is associate professor of history at Purdue University.
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"This book is a masterpiece. . . . Elegant, witty (mystery fans will note a good number of Sherlockian allusions), and learned, Slavery and the American West is the finest book written on the 1850s since David Potter’s classic study of two decades past."--Civil War History
"Serious historians will find Morrison's book well worth reading. It captures the key events that led to civil war while superimposing them on a framework of western expansion."--Military Review
"A welcome study, a well-written authoritative work that provokes new answers to old but scarcely exhausted questions about the origins of America’s greatest upheaval."--Slavery and Abolition
"A strong book that is thoroughly and copiously documented. . . . Slavery and the American West brings a range of fresh insights that will help historians rethink the conceptual framework of antebellum politics."--Kansas History
"A thoroughly researched, carefully reasoned account of antebellum politics. . . . This book is an intellectual tour de force."--North Carolina Historical Review
"This book is a masterpiece. . . . No historian who pretends to understand the sixteen-year countdown to Civil War will be able to ignore it."--Civil War History