Inventing destiny : cultural explorations of US expansion / edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryan, Jimmy L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territorial expansion.

Social aspects.

United States--Territorial expansion--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2019]

Summary:

"Conventional studies of US expansion have viewed the topic from political, diplomatic, economic, and military perspectives. In this collection, an interdisciplinary cast of scholars examine the subject from a variety of cultural perspectives, showing how narratives of empire and conquest formed in both low and high cultures. Many of the chapters will focus on the less remembered actors and outliers - anti-expansionists, Native Americans, Anglo-American women, and non-national expansionists - who significantly complicated the narratives of empire. The contributors examine a variety of source materials such as artwork, literature, and geospatial analysis alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. Instead of dwelling on the familiar narratives of "manifest destiny" or "the vanishing Indian," Inventing Destiny identifies and explores the less-remembered fictions of expansion, seeks a better understanding of the anti-expansionist response, and uncovers the resistance of those who were victims of US territorial aggrandizement"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "everybody needs some elbow room": culture and contradiction in the study of US expansion / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr

"A destiny in the womb of time": US expansion and its prophets / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr

Stealing Naboth's Vineyard: the religious critique of expansion, 1830-1855 / Daniel J. Burge

The art of Indian affairs: land and sky in Charles Bird King's Keokuk, the watchful fox / Kenneth Haltman

Expansion in the East: Seneca sovereignty, Quaker missionaries, and the great survey, 1797-1801 / Elana Krischer

Armed occupiers and slaveholding pioneers: mapping white settler colonialism in Florida / Laurel Clark Shire

Geographies of expansion: nineteenth-century women's travel writing / Susan L. Roberson

Revising Hannah Duston: domesticity and the frontier in nineteenth-century retellings of the Duston captivity / Chad A. Barbour

Autobiography across borders: reading John Dunn Hunter's Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age nineteen / Andy Doolen

The Lansford Hastings imaginary: visions of democratic patriarchy in the Americas, 1842-1867 / Thomas Richards Jr

Safely "beyond the limits of the United States": the Mormon expulsion and US expansion / Gerrit Dirkmaat

At the center of Southern empire: the role of Gulf South communities in Antebellum territorial expansion / Maria Angela Diaz

Inventing a national past: archaeological investigation in the Southwest in the aftermath of the US-Mexican war, 1851-1879 / Matthew Johnston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780700628179

0700628177

9780700628186

0700628185

OCLC:

1089261242