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Format: 360 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 25 cm

Edition: Second printing

ISBN: 9780674737259

Content: A new portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil.--

Content: Introduction: The world the slaveholders craved -- Confronting the great apostle of emancipation -- The strongest naval power on earth -- A hemispheric defense of slavery -- Slavery's dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- The young Hercules of America -- King cotton, Emperor slavery -- Slaveholding visions of modernity -- Foreign policy amid domestic crisis -- The military South -- American slavery, global power -- Epilogue: the rod of empire

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

Language: English

Keywords: USA ; Macht ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1820-1863

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Format: 360 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-0-674-73725-9

Content: A new portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil....

Language: English

Subjects: History

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Format: 1 online resource (369 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 0-674-97384-4 , 0-674-97381-X

Content: 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 diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations of these southerners at the commanding heights of American politics. For proslavery leaders like John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the nineteenth-century world was torn between two hostile forces: a rising movement against bondage, and an Atlantic plantation system that was larger and more productive than ever before. In this great struggle, southern statesmen saw the United States as slavery’s most powerful champion. Overcoming traditional qualms about a strong central government, slaveholding leaders harnessed the power of the state to defend slavery abroad. During the antebellum years, they worked energetically to modernize the U.S. military, while steering American diplomacy to protect slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the Republic of Texas. As Matthew Karp demonstrates, these leaders were nationalists, not separatists. Their “vast southern empire” was not an independent South but the entire United States, and only the election of Abraham Lincoln broke their grip on national power. Fortified by years at the helm of U.S. foreign affairs, slaveholding elites formed their own Confederacy—not only as a desperate effort to preserve their property but as a confident bid to shape the future of the Atlantic world.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: The World the Slaveholders Craved -- , 1. Confronting the Great Apostle of Emancipation -- , 2. The Strongest Naval Power on Earth -- , 3. A Hemispheric Defense of Slavery -- , 4. Slavery’s Dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- , 5. The Young Hercules of America -- , 6. King Cotton, Emperor Slavery -- , 7. Slaveholding Visions of Modernity -- , 8. Foreign Policy amid Domestic Crisis -- , 9. The Military South -- , 10. American Slavery, Global Power -- , Epilogue: The Rod of Empire -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Credits -- , Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-98677-6

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-73725-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674973817