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Inventing Destiny : Cultural Explorations of US Expansion /
"Conventional studies of US expansion have viewed the topic from political, diplomatic, economic, and military perspectives. In this collection, an interdisciplinary cast of scholars examine the subject from a variety of cultural perspectives, showing how narratives of empire and conquest forme...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "everybody needs some elbow room": culture and contradiction in the study of US expansion / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr
- "A destiny in the womb of time": US expansion and its prophets / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr
- Stealing Naboth's Vineyard: the religious critique of expansion, 1830-1855 / Daniel J. Burge
- The art of Indian affairs: land and sky in Charles Bird King's Keokuk, the watchful fox / Kenneth Haltman
- Expansion in the East: Seneca sovereignty, Quaker missionaries, and the great survey, 1797-1801 / Elana Krischer
- Armed occupiers and slaveholding pioneers: mapping white settler colonialism in Florida / Laurel Clark Shire
- Geographies of expansion: nineteenth-century women's travel writing / Susan L. Roberson
- Revising Hannah Duston: domesticity and the frontier in nineteenth-century retellings of the Duston captivity / Chad A. Barbour
- Autobiography across borders: reading John Dunn Hunter's Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age nineteen / Andy Doolen
- The Lansford Hastings imaginary: visions of democratic patriarchy in the Americas, 1842-1867 / Thomas Richards Jr
- Safely "beyond the limits of the United States": the Mormon expulsion and US expansion / Gerrit Dirkmaat
- At the center of Southern empire: the role of Gulf South communities in Antebellum territorial expansion / Maria Angela Diaz
- Inventing a national past: archaeological investigation in the Southwest in the aftermath of the US-Mexican war, 1851-1879 / Matthew Johnston.