This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy /
A portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as th...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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 amid domestic crisis
- The military South
- American slavery, global power
- Epilogue : the rod of empire.