The Lagos Consulate 1851 - 1861
The Lagos Consulate 1851 - 1861

Author: Robert S. Smith

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0520325842

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Manifest Destiny's Underworld

Author: Robert E. May

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0807827037

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In the first full history of 19th-century American filibusters, illegal invasions of foreign countries with whom the US was formally at peace, May explores what drew thousands of men to join these mercenary expeditions and considers the relationship between filibustering and broader issues of American imperialism.