LOPEZ EXPEDITIONS TO CUBA 1848

LOPEZ EXPEDITIONS TO CUBA 1848
Author: Robert Granville 1882 Caldwell
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2016-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781374363625

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Cuban Confederate Colonel

Cuban Confederate Colonel
Author: Antonio Rafael De la Cova
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2003
Genre: Cuba
ISBN: 9781570034961

In doing so, de la Cova sheds new light on the connections between Southern and Cuban society, the workings of coastal defenses during the Civil War, and the vicissitudes of Reconstruction for a Cuban expatriate."--Jacket.

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns
Author: Janice E. Thomson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996-07-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 140082124X

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.

River of Dark Dreams

River of Dark Dreams
Author: Walter Johnson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674074882

River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Theodore O'Hara

Theodore O'Hara
Author: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes (Jr.)
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781572330085

With this book, Nathaniel Hughes and Thomas Ware offer the first complete biography of O'Hara and also analyze how "The Bivouac of the Dead" - originally written in honor of Kentuckians who had died in the War with Mexico - became so famous even as its author fell into obscurity. Hughes and Ware have meticulously researched O'Hara's life to present as complete a picture as possible of this forgotten figure.

The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book

The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Author: Jim Jordan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820351954

Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades, and it shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. Nearly thirty years later, the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities. However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very recently. In the twenty-first century, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private papers belonging to Charles Lamar’s father, stored for decades in an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar’s letter book—confirming him as the author. The first part of this book recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Lamar himself, including involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the “Slave-Trader's Letter-Book.” Together with annotations, these seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.

Manifest Destiny's Underworld

Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Author: Robert E. May
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2003-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807860409

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.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1565
Release: 2016-12-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230270573

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.