Books by Daniel J. Burge
“What Daniel does is very interesting. He looks at what became of Manifest Destiny after the U.S.-Mexico War, after the United States not only annexed Texas, but took an enormous chunk of territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. From our point of view, we tend to want more order in the past than there really was. So we will say: ‘Well, there was this moment of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s, and then it was done.’ But people didn’t immediately know it was done. There was a lot of talk about what would happen next—if they were going to keep taking on new land.” Read more...
The best books on Manifest Destiny
Andrew Isenberg, Historian
Interviews where books by Daniel J. Burge were recommended
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850
by Andrés Reséndez -
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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.
