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Filibusters and Expansionists

Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821

Frank Lawrence Owsley author Gene A Smith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Alabama Press

Published:22nd Mar '04

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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. The authors present the revolutionary activities in the Gulf South and their connection with the expansionist trends of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.

[In] a lively and informative work, Owsley and Smith describe the revolutionary activities in the Gulf South and their connection with the expansionist trends of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. This book does a thorough job of describing fillbuster 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. - Journal of Southern History; ""Filibusters and Expansionists adds a breath of fresh air to the history and historiography of antebellum foreign policy."" - Journal of American History

ISBN: 9780817351175

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 384g

256 pages