The U.S. Filibusters in Transnational Newspaper Discourses, 1855-1857

The essay focuses on the transnational entanglements between the USA and Nicaragua in the mid-nineteenth century, when U.S. adventurers (so-called ‘filibusters’) started private invasions to the American isthmus. One embodiment of these entanglements was El Nicaraguense, a bilingual newspaper publis...

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Published inCurrent objectives of postgraduate American studies : COPAS Vol. 13; no. 2012; pp. 1 - 17
Main Author Beer, Andreas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 01.01.2012
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Summary:The essay focuses on the transnational entanglements between the USA and Nicaragua in the mid-nineteenth century, when U.S. adventurers (so-called ‘filibusters’) started private invasions to the American isthmus. One embodiment of these entanglements was El Nicaraguense, a bilingual newspaper published by the invaders and distributed in the USA and Central America. The article analyzes how the paper contributed to the incorporation of Nicaragua into the U.S. colonial realm.
ISSN:1861-6127
1861-6127