{"product_id":"a-failed-vision-of-empire-the-collapse-of-manifest-destiny-1845-1872-paperback-softback-9781496237071","title":"A Failed Vision of Empire; The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496237071","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel J. Burge (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496237071\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages, 15 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.412 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"By calling into question the assumption that expansion was inevitable, this book demands that we take responsibility-and perhaps even make amends-for the unjust wars of conquest waged by the United States.\"-Alice L. Baumgartner, \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Burge's persuasive critique of the standard account of American empire should alter how manifest destiny is studied and taught.\"-Matt Millsap, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a useful reminder of the fact that manifest destiny was contested.\"-Maria Angela Diaz, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"For anyone interested in joining in the work of deconstructing such a powerful myth, Burge provides the tools.\"-Richard Mize, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Burge has refined and updated our understanding of territorial expansion in an important way. He has offered a clear, concise, and persuasive argument that should substantially alter how we look at Manifest Destiny and the mythology surrounding it. \u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e should not be missed by any fan of nineteenth-century American history.\"-Matthew D. McDonough, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable part of a growing literature seeking to place manifest destiny in its proper historical and historiographical position.\"-Michael Hill, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Nineteenth Century History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This well-written, deeply researched, and provocative book deserves a wide readership because it advances important ideas that will spark plenty of discussions about manifest destiny and expansion in the nineteenth century U.S.\"-Evan C. Rothera, \u003ci\u003eCivil War Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Burge's \u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e significantly contributes to the scholarship of U.S. empire. . . . The book confirms manifest destiny was a powerful rhetorical device that inspired an equally powerful resistance, and as Burge contends, by the 1870s, the resistance won.\"-Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., \u003ci\u003eJournal of Arizona History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e has performed a remarkable feat by blazing a fresh trail through what had looked like fairly well-worn historiographic terrain.\"-Brian Rouleau, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"An excellent book, \u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e will benefit historians of the U.S. South, Civil War–era politics, and foreign affairs.\"-David Prior, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Civil War Era\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of historians has posed manifest destiny as a unifying ideology of the nineteenth century, one that was popular and pervasive and ultimately fulfilled in the late 1840s when the United States acquired the Pacific Coast. However, the story of manifest destiny was never quite that simple.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e Daniel J. Burge examines the belief in manifest destiny over the nineteenth century by analyzing contested moments in the continental expansion of the United States, arguing that the ideology was ultimately unsuccessful. By examining speeches, plays, letters, diaries, newspapers, and other sources, Burge reveals how Americans debated the wisdom of expansion, challenged expansionists, and disagreed over what the boundaries of the United States should look like. \u003ci\u003eA Failed Vision of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to capture the messy, complicated, and yet far more compelling story of manifest destiny’s failure, debunking in the process one of the most pervasive myths of modern American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523400954136,"sku":"9781496237071","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-failed-vision-of-empire-the-collapse-of-manifest-destiny-1845-1872-paperback-softback-9781496237071","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}