Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8173-5117-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
[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 HistoryMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-5117-5 (9780817351175)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.