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Article: Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America

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Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. By Robert E. May. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 426. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2703-7.)

In this balanced, judicious, and readable account of U.S. filibustering from the 1820s to the 1860s, Robert E. May of Purdue University redesigns the study of filibustering. He departs from the common chronological and biographical focus found in scores of books, articles, and dissertations and substitutes instead a largely thematic analysis. May also expands upon the commonly studied expansionist projects in the Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico region to include private expeditions planned or launched ...

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