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Article: Schemers & Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848-1921
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- The Americas
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- October 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Academy of American Franciscan History Oct 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Schemers & Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848-1921. By Joseph A. Stout. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2002, Pp. xvii, 148. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95 cloth.
Filibustering-the militant act by which an individual or group from one nation unofficially seizes the territory of another nation-has a venerable tradition in the Americas. The most illustrious, or infamous, of American filibusters was William Walker ( 1824-1860), whose forays into Mexico and Central America were dramatized in the surreal, historically themed film Walker (1989). For the most part, fillbustering was associated with enthusiastic American expansion in Latin America, where ...