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Manifest Destiny : American Expansion and the Empire of Right
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Manifest Destiny : American Expansion and the Empire of Right Paperback - 1996

by Stephanson, Anders

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  • Title Manifest Destiny : American Expansion and the Empire of Right
  • Author Stephanson, Anders
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
  • Date January 31, 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4776715-75
  • 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)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.6

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First line

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.

About the author

Anders Stephanson, professor of history at Columbia University, is the author of Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy.

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