Descript |
360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Contents |
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. |
ISBN |
9780674737259 (alk. paper) |
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