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

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

Matthew Karp

368 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplom...

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