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9780807855812

Manifest Destiny's Underworld

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807855812

  • ISBN10:

    0807855812

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Narciso Lopez's Predecessors
1(18)
Harry Maury's America
19(40)
America's Second Sin
59(22)
John Goddard's Lesson
81(36)
Samuel Hay's Puzzlement
117(52)
Francis Smith's Integrity
169(14)
New York's Visitors
183(32)
The State Department's Albatross
215(34)
Judge Campbell's Nightmare
249(32)
Epilogue 281(16)
Notes 297(108)
Index 405

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