dc.contributor.advisor | Kuznesof, Elizabeth | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Earle, Jonathan H | |
dc.contributor.author | Wolnisty, Claire | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-28T22:44:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-28T22:44:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14564 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25756 | |
dc.description.abstract | My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that early nineteenth-century, white United States southerners strengthened their identities as pro-slavery, modern, and southern heads of families through their connections to Latin America. Tracing this long-standing outward southern gaze sheds new light on what United States “expansionism” and southern “modernization” looked like in practice both before and after the Civil War. I critique traditional narratives about the development of Manifest Destiny when I demonstrate that United States residents created multiple expansionistic ideologies that highlighted either militant or commercial agendas. These expansionists sought to establish a vast empire rooted in slavery that stretched southward to Argentina as well as westward to the Pacific Ocean, a goal often overlooked in the current historiography. Archival material from both the United States and Brazil questions stories that depict the antebellum South as an isolationist and anti-modern entity when it traces the ways in which southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor. | |
dc.format.extent | 230 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | History | |
dc.subject | Identity | |
dc.subject | Latin America | |
dc.subject | Migration | |
dc.subject | Slavery | |
dc.subject | Transnational | |
dc.subject | United States South | |
dc.title | Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877 | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Warren, Kim | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Jahanbani, Sheyda | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Doan, Alesha | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | History | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
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dc.rights.accessrights | embargoedAccess | |