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Southern Dream Of A Caribbean Empire 18
Robert E. May
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Description for Southern Dream Of A Caribbean Empire 18
Paperback. A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, this book remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico and Central America in particular - before the Civil War. Series: New Perspectives on the History of the South. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 1KLC; 3JH; HBG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico, and Central America in particular - before the Civil War. Robert May shows that the South's expansionists had no more success than when they tried to extend slavery westward. As one after another of their plots failed, southern imperialists lost hope that their labor system might survive in the Union. Blaming northern Democrats and antislavery Republicans alike for their disappointed dreams, alienated southerners embraced secession as an alternative means to ... Read more
A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico, and Central America in particular - before the Civil War. Robert May shows that the South's expansionists had no more success than when they tried to extend slavery westward. As one after another of their plots failed, southern imperialists lost hope that their labor system might survive in the Union. Blaming northern Democrats and antislavery Republicans alike for their disappointed dreams, alienated southerners embraced secession as an alternative means to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
New Perspectives on the History of the South
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813025124
SKU
V9780813025124
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About Robert E. May
Robert E. May is professor of history at Purdue University. He is the author of John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (1985) and editor of The Union, The Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim (1995).
Reviews for Southern Dream Of A Caribbean Empire 18
The great value of the book lies in the manner in which May relates the expansionist urge to the symbolic"" differences emerging between the North and the South.... The result is a balanced account that contributes to the efforts of historians to understand the causes of the Civil War."" - Journal of American History ""The most ambitious effort yet to ... Read more