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03035aam a2200493 i 4500 001 B3A7D230A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 160224s2016 mauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016009232 020 $a 0674737253 020 $a 9780674737259 035 $a (OCoLC)942610278 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d BDX $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a E183.7 $b .K345 2016 082 00 $a 306.3/62097309033 $2 23 100 1 $a Karp, Matthew, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a This vast southern empire : $b slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy / $c Matthew Karp. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 360 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 520 $a A new portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil.-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The world the slaveholders craved -- Confronting the great apostle of emancipation -- The strongest naval power on earth -- A hemispheric defense of slavery -- Slavery's dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- The young Hercules of America -- King cotton, Emperor slavery -- Slaveholding visions of modernity -- Foreign policy amid domestic crisis -- The military South -- American slavery, global power -- Epilogue: the rod of empire. 650 0 $a Slavery $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Slavery $x History. $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1783-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1865. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Power (Social sciences) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01074219 650 7 $a Slavery $x Government policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120450 650 7 $a Slavery $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120480 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1783-1865 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406020048.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529011628.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213012209.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20170104012357.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B3A7D230A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search