Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

A Reinterpretation, With a New Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Frederick Merk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

1995
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-54805-3 (ISBN)

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Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. “What is most impressive,” Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, “is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process.” The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O’Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk “loved to get the facts straight.”
—From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Frederick Merk was Gurney Professor of American History, Harvard University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.11.1995
Co-Autor	Lois Bannister Merk
Vorwort	John Mack Faragher
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-674-54805-1 / 0674548051
ISBN-13	978-0-674-54805-3 / 9780674548053
Zustand	Neuware