Prologue To Manifest Destiny

Author : Howard Jones,Donald Allen Rakestraw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024980

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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 : Barry B. Longyear
Publisher : Backinprint.Com
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0595221246

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Manifest Destiny by Barry B. Longyear Pdf

Author : Julia Magruder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1489514988

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A Manifest Destiny

Author : Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Julia Madruger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752413434

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A Manifest Destiny by Julia Madruger Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Manifest Destiny by Julia Madruger

Author : Donald A. Rakestraw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442249950

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Daniel Webster by Donald A. Rakestraw Pdf

Donald A. Rakestraw focuses on Daniel Webster’s critical diplomatic efforts. His domestic resumé garnered him the title “Defender of the Constitution,” while his adroit handling of his signature accomplishment with Lord Ashburton earned him the additional title of “Defender of the Peace.”

Author : Harry Huntington Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015027046864

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The War as a Suggestion of Manifest Destiny by Harry Huntington Powers Pdf

Author : Chris Dingess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1107653269

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Manifest Destiny by Chris Dingess Pdf

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871407702

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

“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.

Author : David M. Gold
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739172735

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An Exemplary Whig by David M. Gold Pdf

An Exemplary Whig examines the life and thought of Edward Kent, a nineteenth-century state political leader and judge and Maine's quintessential Whig. It reveals Kent's characteristically conservative Whig aversion toward disorder and his deep respect for law, existing institutions, and the wisdom of experience. David Gold shows how Kent carried the Whig persuasion into the Republican ascendancy and the beginnings of the Gilded Age.

Author : Anders Stephanson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Daniel J. Burge
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Heather Fryer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803220331

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Perimeters of Democracy by Heather Fryer Pdf

During times of conflict, Americans have worried that enemies within would twist freedom of speech into a weapon of propaganda and use freedom of assembly to unleash violent internal chaos. As a result, the government isolated and confined within federal communities groups that they deemed dangerous. Within these so-called cultural structures of realistic democracy, the government awkwardly attempted to protect citizens while curbing their rights and freedoms. ø It is no accident that the government?s enclosed worlds were most numerous in the American West, where abundant open space has long symbolized the glory of American freedom and progress. Heather Fryer looks at four of these inverse utopias in the American West: the Klamath Indian reservation; the community of nuclear scientists in Los Alamos; the Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah; and the wartime company town of Vanport, Oregon. Each community stripped freedoms from Americans based on beliefs about the treacherous tendencies of minorities, workers, and radicals. Although the differences of experience among the four populations were considerable, they shared the marginalization, repression, displacement, and disillusionment with the federal government that flourished within the confined spaces of America?s inverse utopias. Nor was their experience theirs alone; it is instead part of a patterned, national, wartime dynamic that makes enemies of citizens while fighting to extend American freedom to every corner of the globe.

Author : Thomas M. Leonard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461638292

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James K. Polk by Thomas M. Leonard Pdf

When he was elected President in 1845, James K. Polk was only 49 years old-at that time the youngest president ever to be elected. He faced a conflicted nation on the verge of tremendous territorial expansion. James K. Polk's four years in office marked the greatest period of territorial acquisition in the history of the country-what New York journalist John O'Sullivan termed as the 'Manifest Destiny' of the United States to expand across the continent. By the end of Polk's presidency in 1849, U.S. possessions included the California, Oregon, and New Mexico territories. In addition, Texas had become part of the Union. This book analyzes Polk's political career and his role in each of these territorial expansions. James K. Polk: A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny shows that they were far more complex than the moral crusade that had been labeled 'Manifest Destiny.' Southern planters wanted to protect their 'peculiar institution' of slavery by adding new territories from which slave states would be carved. Commercial interests feared that war with England over any of these territories would adversely impact upon the nation's trade. Although the Oregon boundary dispute was settled with little friction, the Mexican War erupted after the annexation of Texas. This fascinating biography of our eleventh president and his successful efforts for expansion of U.S. territory will be of interest to students studying United States history, foreign policy, and the massive territorial expansion in the 1840s known as Manifest Destiny.

Author : JULIA. MAGRUDER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033754145

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MANIFEST DESTINY by JULIA. MAGRUDER Pdf