Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America

Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
Author: Robert E. May
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448

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.
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The French-Indian War 1754-1760 (Essential Histories)

The French-Indian War 1754-1760 (Essential Histories)
Author: Daniel Marston
Edition: 1
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96

This book traces the background and course of the French-Indian War, fought out in the forests, plains, and forts of the North American frontier. Despite early French successes against a British army unskilled in woodland fighting, the British learned quickly from their Native American allies and emerged victorious at Louisbourg and Quebec.
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