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dc.contributor.advisorKuznesof, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.advisorEarle, Jonathan H
dc.contributor.authorWolnisty, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-28T22:44:23Z
dc.date.available2018-01-28T22:44:23Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-31
dc.date.submitted2016
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14564
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25756
dc.description.abstractMy 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.extent230 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectIdentity
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectMigration
dc.subjectSlavery
dc.subjectTransnational
dc.subjectUnited States South
dc.titleAustral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberWarren, Kim
dc.contributor.cmtememberJahanbani, Sheyda
dc.contributor.cmtememberDoan, Alesha
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineHistory
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
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