Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism (WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB MEMORIAL LECTURES)

These Six Studies From The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures Offer Specific Treatments Of American Antebellum Expansionism.--book Jacket. Introduction; The Meaning Of Manifest Destiny / Robert W. Johannsen -- Race, Progress And Destiny: Caleb Cushing And The Quest For American Empire / John M. Belohlavek -- This Splendid Juggernaut: Westward A Nation And Its People / Thomas R. Hietala -- The Uncertain Road To Manifest Destiny: Army Officers And The Course Of American Territorial Expansionism, 1815-1846 / Samuel J. Watson -- Anglophobia And The Annexation Of Texas: The Quest For National Security / Sam W. Haynes -- Manifest Destiny's Filibusters / Robert E. May. By Robert W. Johannsen ... [et Al.] ; Edited By Sam W. Haynes And Christopher Morris. Includes Bibliographical References. Title ......Page 1 Contents ......Page 5 Preface ......Page 7 Introduction......Page 11 The Meaning of Manifest Destiny......Page 15 Race, Progress,and Destiny: Caleb Cushing and the Quest for American Empire ......Page 29 "This Splendid Juggernaut": Westward a Nation and Its People ......Page 56 The Uncertain Road to Manifest Destiny: Army Officers and the Course of American Territorial Expansionism, 1815-1846......Page 76 Anglophobia and the Annexation of Texas: The Quest for National Security ......Page 123 Manifest Destiny's Filibusters......Page 154 These six studies from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures offer specific treatments of American antebellum expansionism. For Robert W. Johannsen of the University of Illinois at Urbana offers fresh insight into the meaning of the term Manifest Destiny, arguing for a broader definition. John M. Belohlavek of the University of South Florida takes a close look at the expansionist attitudes of Massachusetts politician, diplomat, reformer, and intellectual Caleb Cushing.