Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, Revised Edition (Cornell Paperbacks) - Softcover

Hietala, Thomas R.

 
9780801488467: Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, Revised Edition (Cornell Paperbacks)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080148846X ISBN 13: 9780801488467
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2003

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Praise for the earlier edition—

"A fascinating, thought-provoking book.... [Hietala] shows that it was not destiny but design and aggression that enabled the United States to control Texas, New Mexico, and California."—Historian

"[Hietala] has examined an impressive array of primary and secondary materials.... [H]is handling of the relationship between the domestic and foreign policies of the [decade] shatters some myths about America's so-called manifest destiny and deserves the attention of all scholars and serious students of the period."—Western Historical Quarterly

Since 1845, the phrase "manifest destiny" has offered a simple and appealing explanation of the dramatic expansionism of the United States. In this incisive book, Thomas R. Hietala reassesses the complex factors behind American policymaking during the late Jacksonian era. Hietala argues that the quest for territorial and commercial gains was based more on a desire for increased national stability than on any response to demands by individual pioneers or threats from abroad.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas R. Hietala is Professor of History at Grinnell College.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080148846X
ISBN 13 
9780801488467
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
284
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