This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy / Matthew Karp.
2016
E183.7 .K345 2016eb
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Title
This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy / Matthew Karp.
Author
Karp, Matthew, 1981- author.
ISBN
9780674973817 (electronic book)
067497381X (electronic book)
9780674737259
0674737253
067497381X (electronic book)
9780674737259
0674737253
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, maps
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E183.7 .K345 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/62097309033
Summary
"A new 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 the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 amid domestic crisis
The military South
American slavery, global power
Epilogue: the rod of empire.
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.