Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Subtitle: Filibustering in Antebellum America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780807827031
Subjects: American history; International relations; Theory of warfare & military science; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; Latin America - General; U.S. Foreign Relations; United States - 19th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: World; USA; Political culture; 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;; Filibusters; United States; 19th century; America; Popular culture; Territorial expansion
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.