This Vast Southern Empire

Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

Matthew Karp

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$21.00 • £16.95 • €19.00

ISBN 9780674986770

Publication Date: 10/15/2018

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

7 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables

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Matthew Karp is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.

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Awards & Accolades

2017 John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association

2017 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Co-Winner, 2016 James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

2017 Book Award, North Jersey Civil War Round Table

Finalist, 2017 Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

A Huffington Post “Seven Notable New Books on Slavery” Selection, 2017

A Junto Favorite Book of 2016

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