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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

by Matthew Karp

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 s

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

Oct 15, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9780674986770