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Prologue to conflict : the crisis and compromise of 1850 /
The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. The rapid opening of western lands demanded the speedy establishment of local civil administration for these vast regions. Outraged partisans, however, cried of coercion: Southerners saw a t...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
©2015.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I. Forty-Nine and Forty-Niners; MAPS; The State of Deseret, 1849-51; CHAPTER II. The Rising and the Setting Suns; CHAPTER III. The Appeal of a Venerable Kentuckian; Four Proposals for Dividing Texas Soil; CHAPTER IV. Equilibrium or Union-Calhoun or Webster?; CHAPTER V.A Pattern Defined; CHAPTER VI. The Wreck of the Omnibus; CHAPTER VII. The Texas Bond Lobby; CHAPTER VIII. Douglas, the Maker of Combinations; CHAPTER IX. Allegro Whistles and Cannon Salutes; CHAPTER X. The Compromise in Operation; APPENDIXES.
- Appendix aappendix b; appendix c; appendix d; bibliographical essay; index.