This Vast Southern Empire

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This Vast Southern Empire
This Vast Southern Empire
Author : Matthew Karp
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 12 September 2016
ISBN : 9780674973848
Pages : 350 pages
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This Vast Southern Empire by Matthew Karp Book PDF Summary

Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders. As Matthew Karp shows, they were nationalists, not separatists. When Lincoln’s election broke their grip on foreign policy, these elites formed their own Confederacy not merely to preserve their property but to shape the future of the Atlantic world.

This Vast Southern Empire

This Vast Southern Empire by Matthew Karp

Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders. As Matthew Karp shows, they were nationalists, not separatists. When Lincoln’s election broke their grip on foreign policy, these elites formed their own Confederacy not merely to preserve their property but to

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