This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of

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

Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders. As Matthew Karp shows, they were nationalists, not separatists. When Lincolnâ€™s election broke their grip on foreign policy, these elites formed their own Confederacy not merely to preserve their property but to shape the future of the Atlantic world.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-09-12
Format Kindle eBook