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

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

Matthew Karp

368 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 diplom...

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