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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Karp, Matthew, 1981- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016
Sujets:
1783-1865
Slavery > Government policy > United States > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Slavery > Government policy.
Slavery > Political aspects.
United States > Foreign relations > 1783-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1783-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1783-1865.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
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.

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