Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Subtitle: Filibustering in Antebellum America
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780807855812
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Latin America - General; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Military - United States; United States - Civil War; History / Latin America; filibusters; private armies; Cuba; Nicaragua; Mexico; Canada; Central America; Ecuador; manifest destiny; slavery; William Walker; U.S. Neutrality Act of 1818; international law;
First sentence: WERE ONE TO TRACE American filibustering to the date that the term came first into use, then it started either in 1850 or in 1851.