Books by "Robert Phillip Baughman"

2 books found

Manifest Destiny's Underworld

Manifest Destiny's Underworld

by Robert E. May

2002 · Univ of North Carolina Press

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.