Books by Andrew Isenberg
Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. A specialist in American environmental history, he is the author or co-author of five books, including Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2013), The Destruction of the Bison (2020), and The Age of the Borderlands (2025).
“I explore different vignettes in the borderlands that only make sense if you begin with the realisation that the United States was weak, relative to those competing imperial powers. It was also weak, relative to some pretty powerful Indigenous nations. There were enslaved people who ran away into the borderlands, because the United States couldn’t exercise much power there. It’s not as if the United States was marching in and establishing its sovereignty through imperial military might. They didn’t have the power to do that.” Read more...
The best books on Manifest Destiny
Andrew Isenberg, Historian
Interviews with Andrew Isenberg
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850
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Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America
by Eric R. Schlereth -
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Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States
by Thomas Richards Jr. -
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A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872
by Daniel J. Burge -
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The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny: 1790-1850
by Andrew Isenberg
The best books on Manifest Destiny, recommended by Andrew Isenberg
The best books on Manifest Destiny, recommended by Andrew Isenberg
'Manifest Destiny' was an idea brought forward in the United States in the 1830s as a rationalisation for western expansion. But it was always contested, argues Andrew Isenberg, Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas, as he selects five history books that, together, offer insight into what the borderlands of the American West were really like.
Interviews where books by Andrew Isenberg were recommended
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1
Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850
by Andrés Reséndez -
2
Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America
by Eric R. Schlereth -
3
Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States
by Thomas Richards Jr. -
4
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872
by Daniel J. Burge -
5
The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny: 1790-1850
by Andrew Isenberg
The best books on Manifest Destiny, recommended by Andrew Isenberg
The best books on Manifest Destiny, recommended by Andrew Isenberg
'Manifest Destiny' was an idea brought forward in the United States in the 1830s as a rationalisation for western expansion. But it was always contested, argues Andrew Isenberg, Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas, as he selects five history books that, together, offer insight into what the borderlands of the American West were really like.
