This Vast Southern Empire : : Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy /

This Vast Southern Empire : : Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy / / Matthew Karp.

When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation’s triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Karp, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.) :; 7 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The World the Slaveholders Craved
  • 1. Confronting the Great Apostle of Emancipation
  • 2. The Strongest Naval Power on Earth
  • 3. A Hemispheric Defense of Slavery
  • 4. Slavery’s Dominoes: Brazil and Texas
  • 5. The Young Hercules of America
  • 6. King Cotton, Emperor Slavery
  • 7. Slaveholding Visions of Modernity
  • 8. Foreign Policy amid Domestic Crisis
  • 9. The Military South
  • 10. American Slavery, Global Power
  • Epilogue: The Rod of Empire
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
  • Index

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