Flowers, Guns, and Money - Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism

"Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them"--

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele is associate professor of history at Miami University and the author of Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.11.2023
• EAN: 9780226829623
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82962-3
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: American Beginnings, 1500-1900
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Geographical discovery & exploration, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Geographical discovery and exploration, Biography: historical, political and military