Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

A Reinterpretation, With a New Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Frederick Merk

Foreword by John Mack Faragher

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$37.50 • £30.95 • €34.00

ISBN 9780674548053

Publication Date: 10/25/1995

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278 pages

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Foreword [John Mack Faragher]
Preface
1. Prologue
2. Manifest Destiny
3. Polk
4. War and the Opposition
5. “All Mexico”
6. Sectional and Party Attitudes
7. Problems
8. The Demise of All Mexico
9. A Caribbeanized Manifest Destiny
10. The Demise of Continentalism
11. The Rise and Fall of Insular Imperialism
12. Mission
Index

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