This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy /
Karp, Matthew, 1981-
This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy / Matthew Karp. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9780674973817
2016009232
Slavery--Government policy--History.--United States
Slavery--Political aspects--History.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
E183 / .T457 2016
This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy / Matthew Karp. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9780674973817
2016009232
Slavery--Government policy--History.--United States
Slavery--Political aspects--History.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
E183 / .T457 2016