Storm over Texas : the annexation controversy and the road to Civil War /
An account of a crucial turning point in American history along the road to the Civil War reveals how partisan differences were transformed into a North-v.-South antagonism that caused the momentum toward the Civil War to go into high gear.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Pivotal moments in American history.
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| Online Access: | 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=808854&T=F Book review (H-Net) Contributor biographical information Publisher description https://elibro.net/ereader/elibrodemo/162975 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's note
- Preface
- Prologue : The Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States is finally passed
- Goin' to Texas : Texas in the American imagination and politics, 1821-1841
- And Tyler too
- We cannot carry Virginia for you : political earthquake, 1843-1844
- Texas will be annexed
- Prolific of evil and pregnant with bloody fruit
- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
- Their heinous sin : the long shadow of Texas
- Conclusion : An element of overwhelming ruin to the republic
- Bibliographic essay.