Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions Series)
By Amy S. Greenberg.
Description
Manifest Destiny has been one of the most influential ideologies in American history, serving as the justification for the nation’s territorial expansion in the antebellum era. In this compelling collection, Amy Greenberg focuses on the social, cultural and political context that gave rise to Manifest Destiny. She explores how American expansionism evolved from its colonial roots and accompanying notions of exceptionalism to become a fully articulated rationale in the 1840s for expanding the nation’s borders and seizing lands from Native Americans and Mexico and later from Cuba ...
ISBN(s)
0312600488, 9780312600488
