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Movement (2000). Michael Pierson connects the subject to party politics in Free Hearts and Free Homes (2003). For the transatlantic dimension, see Clare Midgley, Women Against Slavery (1992), 121–53, and Kathryn Sklar and James B. Stewart, eds., Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery (2007).
    On efforts to aid escaping slaves, see Thomas Morris, Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws (1974); Stanley Harrold, The Abolitonists and the South (1995); David Blight, ed., Passages to Freedom (2004); and Fergus Bordewich, Bound for Canaan (2005).
    There are many books on the Texan Revolution; what follows is a highly selective list emphasizing recent works. The authoritative military history is now Stephen Hardin, Texian Iliad (1994). For other aspects, see Gregg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas (1999); James Crisp, “Race, Revolution, and the Texas Republic,” in The Texas Military Experience , ed. Joseph Dawson (1995), 32–48; Paul Lack, The Texas Revolutionary Experience (1992); Sam Haynes, Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions (1990); Andreas Reichstein, Rise of the Lone Star , trans. Jeanne Willson (1989); Margaret Henson, Juan Davis Bradburn (1982); and Paul Hogan, The Texas Republic (1969). The Alamo has of course attracted particular attention: see Randy Roberts and James Olson, A Line in the Sand (2001); William C. Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo (1998); Timothy Matovina, The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives (1995). Lelia Roeckell, “British Interests in Texas, 1825–1846” (D.Phil. Thesis, Oxford University, 1993) is the most thorough treatment of its subject; for background, see also David Turley, The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780–1860 (1991). The expulsion of the Indian tribes by Anglo settlers is the theme of Gary Anderson, The Conquest of Texas (2005).
    Historical treatments of American imperialism in the 1840s range from celebratory to sternly critical. See William Weeks, Building the Continental Empire (1996); Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design (1985); Shomer Zwelling, Expansion and Imperialism (1970); Frederick Merk, The Monroe Doctrine and American Expansionism (1966); William Goetzman, When the Eagle Screamed (1966); Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny (1981); Sam Haynes and Christopher Morris, eds., Manifest Destiny and Empire (1997); Robert F. May, Manifest Destiny’s Underworld (2002); and Linda Hudson, Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau (2001). Concise biographies of the leading expansionist are Thomas Leonard, James K. Polk (2001); Sam Haynes, James K. Polk , 3rd ed. (2006); and John Seigenthaler, James K. Polk (2003). Edward Crapol, John Tyler, the Accidental President (2006) emphasizes his role as an expansionist.
    A vivid account of the process of Texas annexation is in William Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay (1990), 353–452. David Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Annexation (1973) is detailed and solid. Frederick Merk, Slavery and the Annexation of Texas (1972), like everything by that meticulous historian, is still valuable. For a narrative, see Richard Winders, Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas (2002). Joel Silbey, Storm over Texas (2004), treats annexation’s impact on U.S. party politics.
    The greatest historian of the Oregon controversy was Frederick Merk; see especially his Manifest Destiny and Mission (1963), The Oregon Question (1967), and Fruits of Propaganda in the Tyler Administration (1971). Also valuable are Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations , vol. I (1993) and David Dykstra, The Shifting Balance of Power: American-British Diplomacy in North America (1999). For the settlers, see Julie Jeffrey, Converting the West (1991); Michael Golay, The Tide of Empire (2003); and David Dary, The Oregon Trail (2004). On the British side, see John S. Galbraith, The Hudson’s Bay Company