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...Carmen Fallas Santana The Legacy of the Filibuster War: National Identity and Collective Memory in Central America . By Marco Cabrera Geserick . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2019 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxv , 149 pp. Cloth, $90.00 . Copyright ©...

...William D. McCain The Filibuster: The Career of William Walker . By Greene Laurence . ( Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company [ c 1937 ]. Pp. 350 . Portrait; illus.; index; inside cover map . $3.50 .) Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 ...

...James Alexander Robertson Ravensau de Lussan, Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and early French Filibuster of the Pacific. A Translation into English of his “Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1684 and the following Years with the Filibusters” . Translated and edited by Wilbur...

...Charles W. Macune, Jr. Freebooters Must Die! The Life and Death of William Walker, the Most Notorious Filibuster of the Nineteenth Century . By Rosengarten Frederic Jr. Wayne, Pennsylvania , 1976 . Haverford House . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 226 . Cloth...

... that embarked for Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Subsequent chapters describe the relative ease of recruiting manpower; the significance of filibusterism in the national character of the United States; the multiple reasons for joining filibustering expeditions; efforts by the U.S. government to control...

...David M. Pletcher Schemers and Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848–1921 . By Stout Joseph A. Jr . Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press , 2002 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii , 148 pp. Cloth , $27.95 . Copyright 2004 by Duke...

...Roger R. Trask Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters . By Brown Charles H. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1980 . Maps. Figures. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 525 . Cloth. $25.00 . Copyright 1981 by Duke...

...Charles C. Griffin The Sword Was Their Passport. A History of American Filibustering the Mexican Revolution . By Warren Harris Gaylord . ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1943 . Pp. viii , 286 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ...

...A. Curtis Wilgus The Scourge of the Indies, Buccaneers, Corsairs, and Filibusters . By Besson Maurice . ( New York : Random House , 1929 . Pp. xii , 333 .) Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 ...

... exaggeratedly — largely explained why no successful filibustering ever emerged from these men. (Most fascinating is that the only “man of action” during this time was a woman, Emilia Casanova de Villaverde, who not only broke into the homosocial world of exile writing but also raised funds for revolutionary...

.... This is striking because Southerners exercised disproportionate power in Congress. Pensacola should not have had cause for complaint. Diaz also charts connections between New Orleans and Cuba, most notably in the craze over filibuster expeditions and the push for Cuban annexation. Rather than limiting the focus...

... the aura of filibustering around the activities of the Flores Magón brothers. The work of the P.L.M. in Mexico’s northwest during 1911 is covered at length in this volume, and although the consular dispatches do often equate the insurrection with United States filibustering, the documents also indicate...

... intellectual annoyed many Southerners with his opposition to the extension of slavery and to filibustering. With the demise of that newspaper and the unfortunate death of his deaf-mute lady fair, the crusading editor headed west to California where again he took up the pen to expose crime and venality...

... Infiesta, Máximo Gómez (Havana, 1937), pp. 221-223. The filibustering strategy is evident in emigré activities from 1878 to 1886. For an overview, see Gerald E. Poyo, “Cuban Patriots in Key West, 1878-1886: Guardians at the Separatist Ideal,” Florida Historical Quarterly , 61:1 (July 1982), 20-36...

... University Press 1997 Narciso López, the Venezuelan-born son of a slaveholding rancher, a decorated officer in the Spanish army, and an avowed Cuban patriot, organized on U.S. soil three filibustering expeditions to Cuba. The last, about a decade before southern secession, ended in his garroting...

... insisted that the North Americans in the railroad station had fired on him and the police, and that therefore he had no choice but to order Chief of Police Garrido to fire back. The governor acknowledged that while the people “in their blind excitement, and fearing an attack by filibusters in the city...

... provide a narrative of politics in Tabasco after 1821. It features a cavalcade of caudillos, clergymen, Cuban filibusters, cacaoteros , and one American commodore, Matthew Perry, of Japan fame. They engaged in an endless series of small-scale rebellions, repressions, and civil wars, often linked...

... in a narrative fashion a little-studied episode that affected the relations between the United States and Spain at the onset of the Cuban war of independence. In 1873, a filibuster expedition, organized by wealthy Cubans living in the United States, tried to send aid to the rebels in the island. The Virginius...