A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America

by Claire M. Wolnisty

Overview

A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496207906
Publisher:	Nebraska
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claire M. Wolnisty is an associate professor of history at Austin College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Filibustering in Nicaragua
2. Commercial Expansion in Brazil
3. Southern Emigration to Brazil
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

“Wolnisty illuminates the centrality of Latin America to the regional imagination of white southerners during the ‘long’ Civil War. Her discussion of the South’s introduction of steamships and railroads to Brazil is an important contribution to our understanding of the compatibility of chattel slavery with technological modernism.”—Patrick J. Kelly, coeditor of Living on the Edge: Texas during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Patrick J. Kelly

“Wolnisty’s brisk prose and crisp analysis refocus our concepts of Manifest Destiny southward, specifically to Nicaragua and Brazil, by systematically examining how fear, ambition, and hubris fed an expansionism in search of a future anchored in both slavery and technological advances.”—Laura Jarnagin Pang, author of A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
 

Laura Jarnagin Pang

“A Different Manifest Destiny meticulously unites three branches of southern history—filibusters, commercial expansionists, and southern emigrants—to provide a distinctive, thoughtful inspection and reorientation of an outward-looking South forged through transnational circuits across Latin America.”—Todd W. Wahlstrom, author The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
 

Todd W. Wahlstrom

"A Different Manifest Destiny meticulously unites three branches of southern history--filibusters, commercial expansionists, and southern emigrants--to provide a distinctive, thoughtful inspection and reorientation of an outward-looking South forged through transnational circuits across Latin America."--Todd W. Wahlstrom, author of The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War

"A Different Manifest Destiny demands that historians free themselves from the teleological shackles of Manifest Destiny that inevitably locates nineteenth-century US expansion in the West. . . . Wolnisty's work fits into a small but growing literature dedicated to more rigorously investigating Manifest Destiny and how nineteenth-century Americans believed their country might actually come to dominate the hemisphere and perhaps even the globe."--Michael A. Hill, H-Nationalism

"A Different Manifest Destiny is helpful for scholars interested in the international dimensions of the nineteenth-century U.S. South and hemispheric case studies of southern, proslavery manifest destiny."--Cane West, Journal of Southern History

"Wolnisty illuminates the centrality of Latin America to the regional imagination of white southerners during the 'long' Civil War. Her discussion of the South's introduction of steamships and railroads to Brazil is an important contribution to our understanding of the compatibility of chattel slavery with technological modernism."--Patrick J. Kelly, coeditor of Living on the Edge: Texas during the Civil War and Reconstruction

"Wolnisty's brisk prose and crisp analysis refocus our concepts of Manifest Destiny southward, specifically to Nicaragua and Brazil, by systematically examining how fear, ambition, and hubris fed an expansionism in search of a future anchored in both slavery and technological advances."--Laura Jarnagin Pang, author of A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil

"Wolnisty's concise description of the hemispheric scope of southern expansionists will be of interest to scholars and students alike. She has written an engaging study depicting the interests of nineteenth-century White southerners in Central America and Brazil, and she has made a real contribution to our understanding of their expansionist motives in her explanation of how these expansionists combined their commitment to bonded labor with a vision of building modern commercial networks in the western hemisphere."--Angela F. Murphy, Southwestern Historical Quarterly

"Wolnisty's study of a 'different Manifest Destiny, ' combining filibusters, commercial expansion, and southern emigrants within a single work, is a new and commendable endeavor. . . . This book contributes to a burgeoning scholarly literature about the important nineteenth-century U.S. commercial and political campaigns in Latin America that will be of interest to a wide range of scholars."--Alan P. Marcus, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Wolnisty's work points to fascinating new directions in the study of nineteenth-century southern expansionism."--Roberto Saba, H-CivWar

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