Manifest Destiny American Expansion and the Empire of Right

Name: Manifest Destiny American Expansion and the Empire of Right
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ISBN: 9780809015849

ISBN-10: 0809015846

ISBN-13: 9780809015849

Edition: N/A

Authors: Anders Stephanson

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The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Stephanson explores the origins of Manifest Destiny--the American idea of providential and historical chosenness--and shows how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years. He traces the roots of Manifest Destiny from the British settlement of North America and the rise of Puritanism through Woodrow Wilson's efforts to "make the world safe for democracy" and Ronald Reagan's struggle against the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. The result is a remarkable and necessary book about how faith in divinely ordained expansionism has marked the…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/31/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Prologue



Choice and Chosenness, 1600-1820



Destinies and Destinations, 1820-1865



Blessings of Civilization, 1865-1914



Falling Into the World, 1914-1990


Bibliographical Note


Index