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Praise for the earlier edition— "A fascinating, thought-provoking book.... [Hietala] shows that it was not destiny but design and aggression that enabled the United States to control Texas, New Mexico, and California."—Historian "[Hietala] has...



Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Magnificent Distances, Magnificent IntentionsCHAPTER 2: Texas, the Black Peril, and Alternatives to AbolitionismCHAPTER 3: Of Swords and Plowshares: Coercion through CommerceCHAPTER 4: Jefferson Redivivus: The Perils of ModernizationCHAPTER 5: Continentalism and the Color LineCHAPTER 6: American Exceptionalism, American EmpireCHAPTER 7 Divided They Fell: The Demise of Democratic ExpansionismCHAPTER 8 The Myths of Manifest DestinyA Note on Sources
Index

Manifest Design

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    A Paperback / softback by Thomas R. Hietala

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 23 December 2002
      ISBN-13 9780801488467
      978-0801488467
      ISBN-10 080148846X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Praise for the earlier edition— "A fascinating, thought-provoking book.... [Hietala] shows that it was not destiny but design and aggression that enabled the United States to control Texas, New Mexico, and California."—Historian "[Hietala] has...



      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER 1: Magnificent Distances, Magnificent IntentionsCHAPTER 2: Texas, the Black Peril, and Alternatives to AbolitionismCHAPTER 3: Of Swords and Plowshares: Coercion through CommerceCHAPTER 4: Jefferson Redivivus: The Perils of ModernizationCHAPTER 5: Continentalism and the Color LineCHAPTER 6: American Exceptionalism, American EmpireCHAPTER 7 Divided They Fell: The Demise of Democratic ExpansionismCHAPTER 8 The Myths of Manifest DestinyA Note on Sources
      Index

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