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Manifest Destiny and Empire : American Antebellum Expansionism Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures ; 31
author
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Johannsen, Robert Walter; Haynes, Sam W.; Morris, Christopher
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0890967563
print isbn13
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9780890967560
ebook isbn13
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9780585369389
language
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English
subject
United States--Territorial expansion.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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E179.5.M32 1997eb
ddc
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973
subject
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United States--Territorial expansion.
Manifest Destiny and Empire
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NUMBER THIRTY-ONE: The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
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Manifest Destiny and Empire
American Antebellum Expansionism
By Robert W. Johannsen John M. Belohlavek Thomas R. Hietala Samuel J. Watson Sam W. Haynes Robert E. May
Edited By Sam W. Haynes and Christopher Morris
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Copyright 1997 by the University of Texas at Arlington Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.481984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Manifest destiny and empire : American antebellum expansionism / by Robert W. Johannsen... [et al.]; edited by Sam W. Haynes and Christopher Morris.1st ed. p. cm.(The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures; 31) ISBN 0-89096-756-3 1. United StatesTerritorial expansion. I. Johannsen, Robert Walter, 1925 . II. Haynes, Sam W. (Sam Walter), 1956 III. Morris, Christopher, 1958 . IV. Series. E179.5M32 1997 973dc21 97-25072 CIP
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To Virginia Garrett
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Contents
Preface
xi
Introduction
Robert W. Johannsen
3
The Meaning of Manifest Destiny
Robert W. Johannsen
7
Race, Progress, and Destiny: Caleb Cushing and the Quest for American Empire
John M. Belohlavek
21
"This Splendid Juggernaut": Westward a Nation and Its People
Thomas R. Hietala
48
The Uncertain Road to Manifest Destiny: Army Officers and the Course of American Territorial Expansionism, 18151846
Samuel J. Watson
68
Anglophobia and the Annexation of Texas: The Quest for National Security
Sam W. Haynes
115
Manifest Destiny's Filibusters
Robert E. May
146
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Preface
The essays in this volume were presented in March, 1996, for the Thirtieth Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, held annually at the University of Texas at Arlington. These lectures, all devoted to the theme of early U.S. expansionism, seek to bring into sharper focus the territorial ambitions of Americansboth policy makers and private citizensin the decades prior to the Civil War. While approaching this subject from different perspectives and lines of inquiry, these essays underscore a peculiarly American paradox, for it was during the nineteenth century that the United States emerged as a hemispheric power, even as it grew increasingly unsure of its very identity as a nation.
This year's Webb Lecturers have written and researched widely on the subject of Manifest Destiny and American empire. Robert W. Johannsen is J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His many books include Stephen A. Douglas (1973) and To The Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985). Thomas R. Hietala is an associate professor at Grinnell College and the author of Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America (1985). Sam W. Haynes is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions (1990), and James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse (1996). John M. Belohlavek is a professor at the University of South Florida. He has written George Mifflin Dallas: Jacksonian Patrician (1977) and Let the Eagle Soar! The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jackson (1985). Samuel J. Watson received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1996 and is an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. His contribution to this volume won the 1996 Webb-Smith Essay Competition. Robert E. May is a professor at Purdue University. His books include The Southern
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Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 18541861, and John A. Quitman, Old South Crusader (1985).
On behalf of the UTA department of history, we would like to acknowledge several benefactors and friends of the Webb Lectures. C. B. Smith, Sr., an Austin businessman and former student of Walter Prescott Webb, generously provided the endowment that makes possible the annual presentation and publication of the lectures. Additional support came from the Rudolf Hermanns Endowment for the Liberal Arts. The loyal support of Jenkins and Virginia Garrett of Fort Worth is long and ongoing. Once again, we thank them. President Robert Witt supported our efforts by generously providing a reception in honor of the lecturers. Thanks also go to Stanley Palmer, interim department chair, for his many helpful suggestions as we planned this year's lectures, and to Steven Reinhardt, tireless chair of the Webb Lectures.
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