Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum AmericaUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 426 Seiten "This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War." --Publisher description. |
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... California's statehood . By the time that the López , Quitman , and Carbajal conspiracies had run their course , Anglos in America's newest state had taken up filibustering with considerable gusto , and made California into one of the ...
... California's statehood . By the time that the López , Quitman , and Carbajal conspiracies had run their course , Anglos in America's newest state had taken up filibustering with considerable gusto , and made California into one of the ...
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... California , member of both branches of California's legislature , and presidential elector . The fili- buster leaders John Quitman and Henry Kinney exceeded Crabb in public reputation . Quitman had served in Mississippi as a state ...
... California , member of both branches of California's legislature , and presidential elector . The fili- buster leaders John Quitman and Henry Kinney exceeded Crabb in public reputation . Quitman had served in Mississippi as a state ...
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... California and merged with Flores's forces in 1851. See Edward S. Wallace , Destiny and Glory ( New York , 1967 ) , 101 ; Andrew F. Rolle , California : A History ( New York , 1969 ) , 257 ; Brown , Agents of Manifest Destiny , 166-67 ...
... California and merged with Flores's forces in 1851. See Edward S. Wallace , Destiny and Glory ( New York , 1967 ) , 101 ; Andrew F. Rolle , California : A History ( New York , 1969 ) , 257 ; Brown , Agents of Manifest Destiny , 166-67 ...
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Senator Henry Clay around the time of the López expeditions | 3 |
Entrance of Gen Winfield Scott and American troops into Mexico City September 14 1847 | 15 |
CHAPTER | 19 |
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