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Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America

By Robert E. May

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0807827037, 9780807827031, 9780807860403
LCC
E415.7 .M25 2002
Open Library ID
OL3956623M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3215122 bytes)
Pages
448\447
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Robert May offers an imaginative new approach to antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--the adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pirates, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May explains the romantic, mercenary, ideological, and psychological desires that drove thousands of men to join filibustering expeditions; how they were financed; and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. He also reveals the legacy of anti-Americanism that filibustering generated in Latin America, where people regarded the attackers much the way we look upon international terrorists today.

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