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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"filibustering"”.
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Forgotten Filibusters: Private Hostile Expeditions From the United States Into Spanish Texas, 1812-1821
… the two governments also had relevance to the filibustering expeditions in other ways. Thus in surrendering American claims to Texas, for example, the Adams-Onis treaty of 1819 directly inspired James Long to conduct his invasion of Texas in the same year.
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
… influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern nationalism in the antebellum era directly influenced post-bellum expatriates to attempt colonization in Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.</p><p>A comparison between the antebellum language of expansionists, …
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William Walker and the Republic of Lower California
… life that is especially ignored is his first filibustering expedition to Mexico. Perhaps this is because the whole fiasco was such a dismal failure and does not fit well into the rest of Walker's life story. All of his other ventures reached their zenith before crumbling He was a physician, …
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
… in Liberia, policing of unauthorized “filibustering” invasions in Latin America, and exploring expeditions. It argues that up until the secession crisis at the outbreak of the Civil War, the naval officer corps was remarkably resilient to the growing divide between the North and South. …
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"I Have Told You about the Cane and Garden": White Women, Cultivation, and Southern Society in Central Louisiana, 1852-1874
This thesis examines cultivation in the lives of Sarah and Columbia Bennett between the years 1852 and 1874. The Bennett women's letters convey an intimate sense of the agro-economic preoccupations (and gardening pleasures) of these slave-owning white women, and the centrality of cultivation in …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
Revolutionary Republics analyzes how U.S. literature depicted the independence of Latin America, focusing on the period from the beginning of the Spanish American revolutions in 1810 to the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846. During this brief timespan, the nation’s literature featured a …