Manifest destiny's underworld : filibustering in antebellum America
America's notorious ""filibusters"" weretthe adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pirates, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny.
Print Book, Undefined, 2005
2. pr
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2005