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035			_a(DE-B1597)479806
035			_a(OCoLC)984658940
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aKarp, Matthew _eautore
245	1	0	_aThis Vast Southern Empire : _bSlaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy / _cMatthew Karp.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a1 online resource (350 p.) : _b7 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction: The World the Slaveholders Craved -- _t1. Confronting the Great Apostle of Emancipation -- _t2. The Strongest Naval Power on Earth -- _t3. A Hemispheric Defense of Slavery -- _t4. Slavery’s Dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- _t5. The Young Hercules of America -- _t6. King Cotton, Emperor Slavery -- _t7. Slaveholding Visions of Modernity -- _t8. Foreign Policy amid Domestic Crisis -- _t9. The Military South -- _t10. American Slavery, Global Power -- _tEpilogue: The Rod of Empire -- _tNotes -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tCredits -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWhen 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.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSlavery _xGovernment policy _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSlavery _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674973817
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674973817
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