Filibusters and Expansionists - Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821

Informationen zum Autor Frank L. Owsley Jr. is Professor Emeritus of History at Auburn University and author of Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815. Gene A. Smith is Professor of History at Texas Christian University and author of Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny . Klappentext This compelling narrative demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson's "empire of liberty." Zusammenfassung Describing filibuster activities in both Florida and Texas! American efforts to seize Indian lands! operations against a free black fort in Florida and Andrew Jackson's adventures in Florida! this book adds to the history and historiography of antebellum foreign policy.

Product details

• Authors: Frank L. Owsley, Frank Lawrence Owsley, Frank Lawrence/ Smith Owsley, Gene A. Smith, Gene Allen Smith
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2004
• EAN: 9780817351175
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5117-5
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Library of Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education