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Stephanson, Anders

 
9780809015849: Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
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ISBN 10: 0809015846 ISBN 13: 9780809015849
Editorial: Hill and Wang, 1995

Sinopsis

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 course of American history.

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Acerca del autor

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

De la contraportada

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.

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Editorial
Hill and Wang
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0809015846
ISBN 13 
9780809015849
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
162
Contacto del fabricante
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