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Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion

Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion

Bryan

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)General World History

ISBN10: 0700628177
ISBN13: 9780700628179
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Sep 20 2019
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed manifest destiny in many different ways--and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating cultural history of nineteenth-century US territorial acquisition--a history that gives voice to the underrepresented actors who significantly complicated US narratives of empire, from Native Americans and Anglo-American women to anti- and non-national expansionists.

The contributors--established and emerging scholars from history, American studies, literary studies, art history, and religious studies--make use of source materials and techniques as various as artwork, religion, geospatial analysis, interior colonialism, and storytelling alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. In doing so, they seek to illuminate the complexities rather than simplify, to transgress borders rather than redraw them, and to amplify the under-told stories rather than repeat the old ones. Their work identifies and explores the obscure--or obscured--fictions of expansion, seeking a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of culture creation and recognizing those who resisted US territorial aggrandizement.

In sum, Inventing Destiny demonstrates the value of cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the multiple rationales, critiques, interventions, and contingencies of nineteenth-century US expansion.

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