Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism -- The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety -- "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion -- Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism -- Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power -- Texas annexati…
Separating historical reality from myth, this book provides a nuanced, revisionist assessment of the friar's career, writings, and political activities.
The term 'manifest destiny' has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realise the degree to which manifest destiny and American republ…
The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which Manifest Destiny and American republ…
"America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns of the U.S. American view of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a 'promised land' and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and a mission to spread 'redemption' qua 'democracy' throughout the world.…
"America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns of the U.S. American view of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a 'promised land' and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and a mission to spread 'redemption' qua 'democracy' throughout the world.…
Among the many contentious frontier zones in nineteenth-century North America, Florida was an early and important borderland where the United States worked out how it would colonize new territories. "In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny, Laurel Clark Shire illuminates the vital…
