Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)

by Andrew J. Torget

Explanations for how the United States came to control Mexico’s far-northern territories, for example, have long centered on notions of “manifest destiny” propelling Americans westward in an inexorable march toward the Pacific Ocean.