A Manifest Destiny

Author : Anders Stephanson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809015849

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Manifest Destiny by Anders Stephanson Pdf

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.

Author : Shane Mountjoy
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438119830

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Manifest Destiny by Shane Mountjoy Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Joy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878445

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American Expansionism, 1783-1860 by Mark Joy Pdf

This new Seminar Study surveys the history of U.S. territorial expansion from the end of the American Revolution until 1860. The book explores the concept of 'manifest destiny' and asks why, if expansion was 'manifest', there was such opposition to almost every expansionist incident. Paying attention to key themes often overlooked - Indian removal and the US government land sales policy, the book looks at both 'foreign' expansion such as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the war with Mexico in the 1840s and 'internal' expansion as American settlers moved west . Finally, the book addresses the most recent historiographical trends in the subject and asks how Americans have dealt with the expansionist legacy.

Author : Albert Katz Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258399709

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Manifest Destiny by Albert Katz Weinberg Pdf

Author : Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674548051

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Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History by Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk Pdf

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

Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453237847

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Manifest Destiny by Brian Garfield Pdf

DIVA rollicking adventure starring a young Theodore Roosevelt /divDIVIn 1884, Teddy Roosevelt’s political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after his wife and infant daughter pass away. Frustrated by politics, he retires to the American West to ride, ranch, and hunt buffalo in the Dakota Badlands. Nobody tells him that the buffalo are gone./divDIV /divDIVHe arrives in Dakota a greenhorn, awkward in the saddle and unused to Western clothes. But his aristocratic charm, natural intelligence, and love of nature impress the hardened frontiersmen, forming a bond that lasts the rest of their lives. When a wealthy French marquis threatens the pristine country he has fallen in love with, Roosevelt joins with the Dakotans to defend it. Before the presidency, before San Juan Hill, it was in Dakota that Theodore Roosevelt became a man./div

Author : Reginald HORSMAN,Reginald Horsman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674038776

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Race and Manifest Destiny by Reginald HORSMAN,Reginald Horsman Pdf

American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850. The author deftly chronicles the beginnings and growth of an ideology stressing race, basic stock, and attributes in the blood. He traces how this ideology shifted from the more benign views of the Founding Fathers, which embraced ideas of progress and the spread of republican institutions for all. He finds linkages between the new, racialist ideology in America and the rising European ideas of Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, and scientific ideologies of the early nineteenth century. Most importantly, however, Horsman demonstrates that it was the merging of the Anglo-Saxon rhetoric with the experience of Americans conquering a continent that created a racialist philosophy. Two generations before the new immigrants began arriving in the late nineteenth century, Americans, in contact with blacks, Indians, and Mexicans, became vociferous racialists. In sum, even before the Civil War, Americans had decided that peoples of large parts of this continent were incapable of creating or sharing in efficient, prosperous, democratic governments, and that American Anglo-Saxons could achieve unprecedented prosperity and power by the outward thrust of their racialism and commercial penetration of other lands. The comparatively benevolent view of the Founders of the Republic had turned into the quite malevolent ideology that other peoples could not be regenerated through the spread of free institutions.

Author : Jason Griffiths
Publisher : AA Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907896058

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Manifest Destiny by Jason Griffiths Pdf

On 18 October 2002 Jason Griffiths and Alex Gino set out to explore the American suburbs. Over 178 days they drove 22,383 miles, made 134 suburban house calls and took 2,593 photographs. In Manifest Destiny, Griffiths reveals the results of this exploration. Structured through 58 short chapters, the anthology offers an architectural pattern book of suburban conditions all focused not on the unique or specific but the placeless. These chapters are complemented by an introduction by Griffiths and an afterword by Swiss architectural historian Martino Stierli.

Author : Howard Jones,Donald Allen Rakestraw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024980

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Prologue to Manifest Destiny by Howard Jones,Donald Allen Rakestraw Pdf

During the 1840s the United States and England were in conflict over two unsettled territories along the undefined Canadian-American border. This riveting account of the Maine and Oregon boundary treaties is brought to life masterfully by Professors Howard Jones and Donald Rakestraw. The events in this story paved the way for one of the most far-reaching developments in American history: the age of expansion. The United States gradually came to believe in manifest destiny, the irreversible expansion of the States across the continent. The country's success with England in resolving the two territorial disputes marked the dawn of this new era. Complicating the U.S.-English situation in the 1840s was a border conflict brewing with Mexico. Failure to resolve the disputes with England might have led the United States to war with two nations at once. Careful negotiations led to settlements with England instead of war. But the United States went to war with Mexico from 1846 to 1848. Prologue to Manifest Destiny offers a rare, detailed look at the tense Anglo-American relationship during the 1840s and the two agreements reached regarding the land in the Northeast and the Northwest. Presidents John Tyler and James Polk and the robust master of diplomacy, Daniel Webster, were among the American actors who played center stage in the drama, as well as Britain's Lord Ashburton, who worked closely with Webster to keep the turbulent conflict over the Northeast territory from escalating into war. This gripping frontier story will fascinate as it educates. Prologue to Manifest Destiny is perfect for courses in American history, international relations, and diplomatic history.

Author : Daniel J. Burge
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496228079

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A Failed Vision of Empire by Daniel J. Burge Pdf

"A Failed Vision of Empire examines Manifest Destiny over the nineteenth century by challenging contested moments in the continental expansion of the United States to show that the ideal was not wildly popular, nor did it typically succeed in unifying expansionists"--

Author : David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015057581780

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Manifest Destiny by David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler Pdf

From Colonial times through the 19th century, European Americans advanced toward the west. This book explains the origins of territorial expansion and traces the course of Manifest Destiny to its culminating moment, the conquest of Mexico and the acquisition of the western territories. It also weighs major historical interpretations that have evolved over the years, from those praising expansionism to those condemning it as imperialistic and racist. A mixture of essays, biographical portraits, primary documents, a timeline, and an annotated bibliography gives students and researchers everything they need to begin their examination of this prominent and oft-disputed concept in American history. Manifest Destiny opens with an overview that traces the causes and consequences of American expansionism. Six subsequent chapters cover topics varying from Andrew Jackson's invasion of Spanish Florida and Indian removal to the settlement of Texas and the Oregon Question. Biographical portraits of Stephen Austin, James K. Polk, Osceola, Santa Ana, John O'Sullivan—the coiner of the phrase Manifest Destiny—and others provide personal glimpses of some of the era's major players. Primary documents such as the Oregon Treaty of 1846, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Polk's declaration of war against Mexico enable students to see actual historical evidence from the time period. A chronology, a glossary, and an index make this the most well-rounded and recent reference source on the topic.

Author : Claire M. Wolnisty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Americans
ISBN : 9781496207906

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A Different Manifest Destiny by Claire M. Wolnisty Pdf

A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era.

Author : Julia Magruder
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780369409102

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A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder Pdf

Julia Magruder's poem "A Manifest Destiny" is an exploration of the tension between individuals and society, as well as the power of one's own destiny. Through her vivid imagery and lyrical language, Magruder conveys a sense of struggle and longing to find one's place in the world. She begins by describing the individual as a "lonely ship", navigating through the turbulent waters of life, facing the constant push and pull of society. This metaphor reflects the idea that each person is on their own journey, encountering obstacles and challenges along the way. The poem then moves on to explore how our destiny is shaped by our choices. Magruder suggests that while society can influence us, it is ultimately up to us to choose our own path. She writes that we are all "masters of our fate" and must "chart our own course". This idea of free will is further emphasized when she writes that we have the ability to "weave dreams from pain". Here, Magruder conveys the idea that even in difficult times, we are capable of creating something beautiful from our struggles. Ultimately, Magruder leaves us with a sense of hope and possibility. She encourages us to embrace our manifest destiny and take control of our lives. By doing so, she suggests that we can create a better future for ourselves and those around us. With its inspiring message, "A Manifest Destiny" serves as a reminder that we all have the power to shape our own destinies.

Author : Magruder Julia
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318973236

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A Manifest Destiny by Magruder Julia Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319104894

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Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion by Amy S. Greenberg Pdf

The new edition of Amy Greenberg's Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion continues to emphasize the social and cultural roots of Manifest Destiny when exploring the history of U.S. territorial expansion. With a revised introduction and several new documents, this second edition includes new coverage of the global context of Manifest Destiny, the early settlement of Texas, and the critical role of women in America's territorial expansion. Students are introduced to the increasingly influential transnational concept of settler colonialism, while maintaining a central focus on the ideological origins, social and economic impetus, and territorial acquisitions that fueled U.S. territorial expansion in the nineteenth century. Readers of the revised edition will also find an updated bibliography reflecting both the historiography of American expansion and its transnational context, as well as updated questions for consideration.