Before Manifest Destiny (eBook)

The Contested Expansion of the Early United States

Nicholas G. DiPucchio (Autor)

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2025
258 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5294-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How the contours of the United States took shapeand what they might have been There was nothing predestined about the now-familiar shape of the United States of America. Early visions of what the new country's borders could encompass included Canadian provinces, Caribbean islands, and even Kamchatka in eastern Russia. In Before Manifest Destiny, Nicholas DiPucchio tells the surprising, dramatically contingent story of the United States' expansion, focusing in particular on the ultimately unrealized territorial ambitions cherished by many Americans in the early republic. Between the 1770s and 1820s, American expansionists made efforts to annex Bermuda, Upper Canada, Cuba, and vast swathes of the Pacific Northwest. As DiPucchio shows, however, local populationsfrom small groups of Caribbean merchants to Indigenous populations to rival imperial powerscontested their efforts, helping define the boundaries of the United States and forcing its leaders to recalibrate their expectations of the nation's growth. Rather than the inevitable procession it may appear to be in retrospect, the story of early US expansion was in many ways defined by thwarted ambitions and unfulfilled possibilities. Halted in the Atlantic East, the Canadian North, and the Caribbean South, antebellum expansionists eventually declared it their manifest destiny to overspread the West.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Revolutionary Age
• Zusatzinfo: 7 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Age of Atlantic Revolutions • Benjamin Franklin • Bermuda • British Empire • Caribbean slavery • cherokees • China Trade • Chinookan-speaking peoples • Confederation Period 1781-1789 • Cuba • diplomatic history • early American republic • geopolitics of race • Haitian Revolution • Independence • James K. Polk • Manifest Destiny • Michigan Territory • Native America • Pacific Northwest • Shawnee chief Tecumseh • Spanish American Wars for Independence • state of Franklin • trans-Appalachian West • Upper Canada • U.S.-Mexico War 1846-1848 • U.S. transcontinental expansion • U.S. War for Independence • War of 1812 • westward migration
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5294-8 / 0813952948
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5294-9 / 9780813952949