In This Vast Southern Empire, Matthew Karp steps back from the previous historiography of the slaveholding antebellum South, a historiography that situates slaveholders as antiquated and inward looking, and, instead, Karp sees a slaveholding Southern elite looking outward in an attempt to enshrine their vision of modernity: a world economy run on slave labor. Karp bookends his study with the 1833 British emancipation of the West Indies, seen by Southerners as a global threat to the proliferation of slavery, and the creation and ultimate failure of the Confederate States of America, which Karp deems the “boldest foreign policy project of all” (p. 2). In this fresh take, Karp argues that, from 1833 to 1861, Southern elites eagerly utilized Fe...
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The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in...
Words like 'colonialism' and 'empire' were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstrea...
Thomas Blake Earle reviews Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of Ame...
This project traces American slaveholding attitudes toward international affairs from British emanci...
Interview with Matthew Karp, author of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of Americ...
“Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833-...
“Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833-...
My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that ear...
My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that ear...
The objective of this paper is to make the case that the United States became an economic super-powe...
This dissertation rests on a relatively simple premise: America’s road to disunion ran west, and unl...
This dissertation rests on a relatively simple premise: America’s road to disunion ran west, and unl...
In the more than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and 13th, 14th...
Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowne...
Cotton’s Effect on the Southern Political Economy This excellent book begins by emphasizing the...
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in...
Words like 'colonialism' and 'empire' were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstrea...
Thomas Blake Earle reviews Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of Ame...
This project traces American slaveholding attitudes toward international affairs from British emanci...
Interview with Matthew Karp, author of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of Americ...
“Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833-...
“Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833-...
My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that ear...
My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that ear...
The objective of this paper is to make the case that the United States became an economic super-powe...
This dissertation rests on a relatively simple premise: America’s road to disunion ran west, and unl...
This dissertation rests on a relatively simple premise: America’s road to disunion ran west, and unl...
In the more than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and 13th, 14th...
Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowne...
Cotton’s Effect on the Southern Political Economy This excellent book begins by emphasizing the...
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in...
Words like 'colonialism' and 'empire' were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstrea...