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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Manifest Destiny"”.
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Baseball's manifest destiny: The good, the bad, and the ugly
… in American adherence to nineteenth-century Manifest Destiny and a major demographic shift following a post-World War II economic and technological boom; For the first half of the twentieth century, baseball transcended a mere rooting for a collection of superb athletes; civic identity rested …
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In the Service of Columbia: Gendered Politics and Manifest Destiny Expansion
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A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film
… the historical origins of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and the effects of its transmission into American literature and film. I argue that though eruptions of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the …
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The Denizens of Manifest Destiny: An Archaeological Examination of Life on the Military Site of Fort Garland, Colorado
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted the United States government a large sum of land consisting of what is now currently the American Southwest. This land was inhabited by a combination of Hispanic settlers and Native tribes. To maintain order in the region, the United States established a …
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A struggle against fate: the opponents of manifest destiny and the collapse of the continental dream, 1846-1871
… why individuals supported the ideology of manifest destiny in the nineteenth-century. In contrast to these studies, this dissertation examines the opponents of manifest destiny. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, from comedic novels to newspapers to popular periodicals, this …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
… and exclusionary arguments. Followers of Manifest Destiny utilized missionary anti-Catholic rhetoric to sanction U.S. territorial expansion while opponents relied on exclusionary anti-Catholic rhetoric to justify halting the further acquisition of territory. Regardless of how they were …
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THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION
<p>This dissertation argues for a rereading of Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) as "Transcendental scripture writing." By placing his book in this genre, Thoreau's religious thinking comes to the fore. His book becomes a contextualized pilgrimage addressing …
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MANIFEST DESTINY IN CHINA: A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN INDIAN WARS OF THE 1800S WITH CHINA’S STRIKE HARD CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS OF XINJIANG PROVINCE
Historically, empires have sought to subjugate or destroy target populations by any means necessary, up to and including the use of genocide. However, the proliferation of information technology has provided new ways for state-level entities to influence others without the social and political …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
Frontierism as asserted in the policies of Manifest Destiny, and nurtured within subsequent U.S. expansion and global aggression, remains a vital force in dominant U.S. environmental writing and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
Frontierism as asserted in the policies of Manifest Destiny, and nurtured within subsequent U.S. expansion and global aggression, remains a vital force in dominant U.S. environmental writing and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All …
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On Historical Missions and Modern Phenomena: A Comparison of Germany and the USA on their Way towards the Second World War.
… and democracy.</p><p>I began with an overview of Manifest Destiny and the German myth of the East. Next, I summed up the deep changes that the First World War caused for both societies and how they went into the Great Depression. I examined the rise of scientific racism as part of the …
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
… narrative of unimpeded mobility inherent in Manifest Destiny. Across their works we see how a cast of characters including frontiersmen, renegade sailors, and enslaved peoples are often trapped when they reach the margins of the Western frontier, colonial outposts, and plantations. Rather …
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
… antebellum lifestyle.</p><p>The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern nationalism in the antebellum era directly influenced post-bellum expatriates to attempt colonization in Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.</p><p>A comparison between the …
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
… of a national library in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and ideals. Five major congressional acts made the Library of Congress the national …
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Out of Time: Temporal Colonization and the Writing of Mexican American Subjectivity
… judicial processes, congressional proceedings, Manifest Destiny, commodity fetishism, intellectual production, historical narrative, and sociological discourse. I historically situate Mexican American experiences of US time through María Amparo Ruiz de Burtons depiction of capitalist forms of …
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'For the Hills of Santa Fe': The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 and the Southwest Market Economy
… expedition, Anglo-Texans used the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny and turned the trek into a liberation mission. Moreover, Texans desired an overland route to Santa Fe to attract merchants to their otherwise inactive ports. Texans invested much into the expedition both economically and culturally; …
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Regionalism and Universality on the Big Muddy: A Trail of Pavilions along the Mississippi River
… plays an important role in American notions of Manifest Destiny. Its landscape and river towns are representative of American, rather than Eurocentric, typologies. However, as populations continue to migrate towards Sun Belt and Western cities and suburbs, and as commerce and shipping on the …
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Pa’ashi National Park: Resiliency, Restoration, and Reparative Planning for California’s Tulare Lake Basin
… that explains how the lake was put to sleep by Manifest Destiny-era agricultural settlement and subsequent consolidation of political control over water. I argue that the Tachi Yokut Tribe's proposal for a National Park is a pragmatic, feasible, and desirable planning response to the region's …
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Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth
… myth of the American wilderness and concept of Manifest Destiny. In chapter one of my study, I show that Elizabeth Temple counters the developing masculine myth of the wilderness through her active engagement with the outdoors and challenges the passive, home-bound femininity being espoused in …
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Nature's Manifestation: How Architecture Can Entice Exploration of the American Landscape
… understandings of complex phenomenon and manifests, through spatial experiences, external loci for exploration of the natural world. Assertion While the early Americans utilized "Manifest Destiny" for their own conquests, the manifestation of these architectural elements alludes to the …
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