| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-343) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The world the slaveholders craved -- Confronting the great apostle of emancipation -- Strongest naval power on earth -- A hemispheric defense of slavery -- Slavery's dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- Young Hercules of America -- King cotton, Emperor slavery -- Slaveholding visions of modernity -- Foreign policy amid domestic crisis -- Military South -- American slavery, global power -- Epilogue: the rod of empire. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- Government policy. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Slavery. |
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- Political aspects. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1865.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1783-1865 |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
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Politics and government. |
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Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Karp, Matthew, 1981- This vast southern empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016 9780674737259 (DLC) 2016009232 (OCoLC)942610278 |
| ISBN |
067497381X (electronic book) |
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9780674973817 (electronic book) |
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0674737253 (cloth) |
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9780674737259 (cloth) |
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9780674973848 (e-book) |
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0674973844 |
| Standard No. |
99972759912 |
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10.4159/9780674973817 |
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