Bibliograph

This vast southern empire, slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy, Matthew Karp

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This vast southern empire, slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy, Matthew Karp

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This vast southern empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1060119180

Responsibility statement

Matthew Karp

Sub title

slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy

Summary

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 of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations of these southerners at the commanding heights of American politics

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The world the slaveholders craved -- Confronting the great apostle of emancipation -- The strongest naval power on earth -- A hemispheric defense of slavery -- Slavery's dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- The young Hercules of America -- King Cotton, Emperor Slavery -- Slaveholding visions of modernity -- Foreign policy and domestic crisis -- The military South -- American slavery, global power -- Epilogue: The rod of empire

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