Manifest Destiny 2 0

Author : Sara Humphreys
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496224781

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Manifest Destiny 2. 0 by Sara Humphreys Pdf

At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world. Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller. Investigating the social and cultural implications of the Western and noir genres in video games through two case studies--the best-selling games Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)--Humphreys demonstrates how the frontier myth continues to circulate exceptionalist versions of the United States. Video games spread the neoliberal and neocolonial ideologies of the genres even as they create a new form of performative literacy that intensifies the genres well beyond their originating historical contexts. Manifest Destiny 2.0 joins the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural analysis of video games.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Educational surveys
ISBN : MINN:31951D002803065

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First Follow-up by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766014576

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Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in American History by Richard Worth Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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United States History - Part A by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780615140520

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10 Little Americans by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Joy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : James S. Vass Jr,James Vass Jr
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780595279807

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Cheering for Self by James S. Vass Jr,James Vass Jr Pdf

This book is a study of UW men's basketball fans during the 2001-2002 season and explores their proclivity to 'cheering for self' during basketball events. The term 'basketball event' is used rather than 'basketball game' to make clear that everything connected to and seen, heard, or experienced before, during and after a basketball game is included. The actual game itself is only part of the 'basketball event. An undercurrent runs throughout this participant observation mini-ethnography dealing with access, and the relative quality of that access, to basketball events being affected by ones age, class, race, and gender. The prominent role of advertising in shaping basketball events and helping to construct fans as consumers of products (both commercial and institutional) during the process of cheering for self is central to this idea. Cheering for self is the activity engaged in by individual fans after they find things to identify or connect with through personal investment. Fans cheer for self indirectly. Fans cheer for the team that they identify with. Through the process of cheering for self while attending the basketball event people are taught how to become fans, to consume a UW product--the basketball event and to consume advertisers' products. People have a tendency to spend their entire life trying to impress others.

Author : Robert E. May
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0807860409

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Manifest Destiny's Underworld by Robert E. May Pdf

This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

Author : Terry Corps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810868502

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The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny by Terry Corps Pdf

The brief period from 1829 to 1849 was one of the most important in American history. During just two decades, the American government was strengthened, the political system consolidated, and the economy diversified. All the while literature and the arts, the press and philanthropy, urbanization, and religious revivalism sparked other changes. The belief in Manifest Destiny simultaneously caused expansion across the continent and the wretched treatment of the Native Americans, while arguments over slavery slowly tore a rift in the country as sectional divisions grew and a national crisis became almost inevitable. The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny takes a close look at these sensitive years. Through a chronology that traces events year-by-year and sometimes even month-by-month actions are clearly delineated. The introduction summarizes the major trends of the epoch and the four administrations therein. The details are then supplied in several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, and the bibliography concludes this essential tool for anyone interested in history.

Author : Thomas M. Meagher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137377425

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Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 1 by Thomas M. Meagher Pdf

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering useful case studies for students of military history and spending policy, policymakers, military comptrollers, and officers in training.

Author : Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : John Herd Thompson,Stephen J. Randall
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820331133

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Canada and the United States by John Herd Thompson,Stephen J. Randall Pdf

The United States and Canada have the world’s largest trading relationship and the longest shared border. Spanning the period from the American Revolution to post-9/11 debates over shared security, Canada and the United States offers a current, thoughtful assessment of relations between the two countries. Distilling a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic, and political developments of mutual importance over more than two centuries, this survey enables readers to grasp quickly the essence of the shared experience of these two countries. This edition of Canada and the United States has been extensively rewritten and updated throughout to reflect new scholarly arguments, emphases, and discoveries. In addition, there is new material on such topics as energy, the environment, cultural and economic integration, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, border security, missile defense, and the second administration of George W. Bush.

Author : Joe Keatinge
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781632153302

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Tech Jacket Vol. 3 by Joe Keatinge Pdf

Zack Thompson: community college dropout, lives with his parents... This is who protects us from what lies beyond our world?! But he's also Tech Jacket, the self-styled 'Galactic Guardian of Earth,' and when a big ass space ship enters Earth's orbit, Zack will face the greatest challenge of his life! Collects TECH JACKET (2014) #1-6.

Author : Howard Jones,Donald Allen Rakestraw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Joshua Williamson
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781632153937

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Birthright Vol. 1 by Joshua Williamson Pdf

For the Rhodes family, losing their son was the most devastating thing that could have occurred...but it couldn't prepare them for what happened when he returned. Skybound's newest hit turns fantasy into reality in this all-new series from the creator of NAILBITER and GHOSTED. Pick up this introductory-priced collection and see what everyone's talking about!