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

By Matthew Karp

Book Overview

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 Lincoln'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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737253
• ISBN13: 9780674737259
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"