Description: Description Thomas Hietala, "Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Pr | 2003-03 | ISBN: 080148846X | 284 pages | PDF | 4,7 MBThomas Hietala's Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America provides the foundation of the study of westward expansion as a variant on And yet it has been inexplicably neglected and under-recognized in western In it, Hietala tracks the way in which political leaders of the 1840s, especially Democrats, at once created an empire and denied that what they had created bore any resemblance to the empires held by European As Hietala says, forcefully and clearly, "The fact that the United States acquired contiguous rather than noncontiguous territory makes American aggrandizement no less imperial than that of other empires of the mid-nineteenth "The idealism of westward expansion embodied in the concept of manifest destiny," Hietala declares, &qu...

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