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- catalog abstract ""This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--The freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War."--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b12553225.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 1815-1861.".
- catalog coverage "United States Military relations.".
- catalog coverage "United States Territorial expansion History 19th century.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--The freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War."--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE -- Narciso Lopez's Predecessors I -- CHAPTER TWO -- Harry Maury's America 19 -- CHAPTER THREE -- America's Second Sin 59 -- CHAPTER FOUR -- John Goddard's Lesson 81 -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Samuel Hay's Puzzlement 17 -- CHAPTER SIX -- Francis Smith's Integrity 169 -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- New York's Visitors 83 -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- The State Department's Albatross 215 -- CHAPTER NINE -- Judge Campbell's Nightmare 249 -- Epilogue 281 -- Notes 297 -- Index 405.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 426 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Manifest destiny's underworld.".
- catalog identifier "0807827037 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Manifest destiny's underworld.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Manifest destiny's underworld.".
- catalog spatial "America".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 1815-1861.".
- catalog spatial "United States Military relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States Territorial expansion History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.5 21".
- catalog subject "E415.7 .M25 2002".
- catalog subject "Filibusters America History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Political culture United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE -- Narciso Lopez's Predecessors I -- CHAPTER TWO -- Harry Maury's America 19 -- CHAPTER THREE -- America's Second Sin 59 -- CHAPTER FOUR -- John Goddard's Lesson 81 -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Samuel Hay's Puzzlement 17 -- CHAPTER SIX -- Francis Smith's Integrity 169 -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- New York's Visitors 83 -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- The State Department's Albatross 215 -- CHAPTER NINE -- Judge Campbell's Nightmare 249 -- Epilogue 281 -- Notes 297 -- Index 405.".
- catalog title "Manifest destiny's underworld : filibustering in antebellum America / Robert E. May.".
- catalog type "text".