Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America

Robert E. May

Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002 - History - 426 pages

Robert May offers an imaginative new approach to antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--the adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pir

About the author

Robert E. May is professor of history at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His previous books include The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim and the prize-winning John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
• Author: Robert E. May
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0807827037, 9780807827031
• Length: 426 pages
• Subjects: History / Latin America / General; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)