Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9781438119830
ISBN-13 : 1438119836
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Manifest Destiny by : Shane Mountjoy

As the population of the 13 colonies grew and the economy developed, the desire to expand into new land increased. Nineteenth-century Americans believed it was their divine right to expand their territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. "Manifest destiny," a phrase first used in 1839 by journalist John O'Sullivan, embodied the belief that God had given the people of the United States a mission to spread a republican democracy across the continent. Advocates of manifest destiny were determined to carry out their mission and instigated several wars, including the war with Mexico to win much of what is now the southwestern United States. In Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion, learn how this philosophy to spread out across the land shaped our nation.

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in American History

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in American History
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Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Total Pages : 118
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ISBN-10 : 0766014576
ISBN-13 : 9780766014572
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in American History by : Richard Worth

Discusses the concept of manifest destiny and examines the diplomatic deals and wars that brought new territories under American control and allowed the country to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

Manifest Destinies

Manifest Destinies
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9780307594648
ISBN-13 : 0307594645
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Manifest Destinies by : Steven E. Woodworth

A sweeping history of the 1840s, Manifest Destinies captures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring war in the near future. Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest; William Henry Harrison ran the first modern populist campaign, focusing on entertaining voters rather than on discussing issues; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. When the 1840s dawned, Americans were feeling optimistic about the future: the population was growing, economic conditions were improving, and peace had reigned for nearly thirty years. A hopeful nation looked to the West, where vast areas of unsettled land seemed to promise prosperity to anyone resourceful enough to take advantage. And yet political tensions roiled below the surface; as the country took on new lands, slavery emerged as an irreconcilable source of disagreement between North and South, and secession reared its head for the first time. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s character and destiny.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : 9780141963310
ISBN-13 : 014196331X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Significance of the Frontier in American History by : Frederick Jackson Turner

This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation’s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which – for better or worse – lies at the heart of American identity today. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny
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Publisher : Hill and Wang
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9780809015849
ISBN-13 : 0809015846
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Manifest Destiny by : Anders Stephanson

When John O'Sullivan wrote in 1845, "...the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of Liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us", he coined a phrase that aptly describes how Americans from colonial days and into the twentieth century perceived their privileged role. Anders Stephanson examines the consequences of this idea over more than three hundred years of history, as Manifest Destiny drove the westward settlement to the Pacific, defining the stubborn belief in the superiority of white people and denigrating Native Americans and other people of color. He considers it a component in Woodrow Wilson's campaign "to make the world safe for democracy" and a strong factor in Ronald Reagan's administration.

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 0674548051
ISBN-13 : 9780674548053
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History by : Frederick Merk

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Manifest Destiny; a Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History

Manifest Destiny; a Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History
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Total Pages : 559
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ISBN-10 : 1422717305
ISBN-13 : 9781422717301
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Manifest Destiny; a Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History by : Albert Katz Weinberg

High quality reprint of Manifest Destiny; A Study Of Nationalist Expansionism In American History by Albert Katz Weinberg.

The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
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Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 575
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ISBN-10 : 9780871407702
ISBN-13 : 0871407701
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by : Michael Wallis

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award A Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick “A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down.... Superb.” —New York Times Book Review "WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. With The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis has penned what critics agree is “destined to become the standard account” (Washington Post) of the notorious saga. Cutting through 160 years of myth-making, the “expert storyteller” (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate. Interweaving information from hundreds of newly uncovered documents, Wallis illuminates how a combination of greed and recklessness led to one of America’s most calamitous and sensationalized catastrophes. The result is a “fascinating, horrifying, and inspiring” (Oklahoman) examination of the darkest side of Manifest Destiny.

Breakaway Americas

Breakaway Americas
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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages : 355
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ISBN-10 : 9781421437132
ISBN-13 : 1421437139
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Breakaway Americas by : Thomas Richards Jr.

A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States—and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Most Americans know that the state of Texas was once the Republic of Texas—an independent sovereign state that existed from 1836 until its annexation by the United States in 1846. But few are aware that thousands of Americans, inspired by Texas, tried to establish additional sovereign states outside the borders of the early American republic. In Breakaway Americas, Thomas Richards, Jr., examines six such attempts and the groups that supported them: "patriots" who attempted to overthrow British rule in Canada; post-removal Cherokees in Indian Territory; Mormons first in Illinois and then the Salt Lake Valley; Anglo-American overland immigrants in both Mexican California and Oregon; and, of course, Anglo-Americans in Texas. Though their goals and methods varied, Richards argues that these groups had a common mindset: they were not expansionists. Instead, they hoped to form new, independent republics based on the "American values" that they felt were no longer recognized in the United States: land ownership, a strict racial hierarchy, and masculinity. Exposing nineteenth-century Americans' lack of allegiance to their country, which at the time was plagued with economic depression, social disorder, and increasing sectional tension, Richards points us toward a new understanding of American identity and Americans as a people untethered from the United States as a country. Through its wide focus on a diverse array of American political practices and ideologies, Breakaway Americas will appeal to anyone interested in the Jacksonian United States, US politics, American identity, and the unpredictable nature of history.

Rise of American Democracy

Rise of American Democracy
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 1114
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ISBN-10 : 0393329216
ISBN-13 : 9780393329216
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Rise of American Democracy by : Sean Wilentz

A political history of how the fledgling American republic developed into a democratic state offers insight into how historical beliefs about democracy compromised democratic progress and identifies the roles of key contributors.