Description: A fascinating revisionist history, Sustaining Empire challenges long-standing assertions that this commerce served primarily as a vector for the one-way transmission of revolutionary, liberal ideas from the North to South Atlantic.
Brief description: Edward P. Pompeian is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tampa.
Review Quotes: [Sustaining Empire] offers an important reflection regarding the ambiguity, fragmentations, and contradictions that existed between US political ideologies and US commercial interests in South America during the Age of Revolutions.