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Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (Hill and Wang Critical Issues) Paperback - 1996
by Stephanson, Anders
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- Title Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
- Author Stephanson, Anders
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hill & Wang, New York
- Date January 31, 1996
- Bookseller's Inventory # 39BBQM005TUF
- ISBN 9780809015849 / 0809015846
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.6
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British North America was colonized through conquest and subsequent implantation of replicas of British society, with the significant addition of black slavery.
From the rear cover
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.