Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American EmpireCambridge University Press, 6 de juny 2005 - 323 pàgines The U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848) brought two centuries of dramatic territorial expansionism to a close, and apparently fulfilled America's Manifest Destiny. Or did it? Even as politicians schemed to annex new lands in Latin America and the Pacific, other Americans aggressively pursued expansionism independently. In fact, an epidemic of unsanctioned attacks by private American mercenaries (known as filibusters) occurred between 1848 and 1860 throughout the Western Hemisphere. This book documents the potency of Manifest Destiny in the antebellum era, and analyzes imperial lust in the context of the social and economic transformations that were changing the definition of gender in the U.S. Amy S. Greenberg is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is also the author of Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City (Princeton, 1998). She has served on the governing boards of the Urban History Association, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and on the editorial board of Journal of Urban History. She is the recipient of the Pennsylvania State University George Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as numerous fellowships. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The New Frontier as Safety Valve The Political and Social Context of Manifest Destiny 18001860 | 18 |
Enter the Filibusters | 27 |
Political Repercussions and Responses in the Second Party System | 33 |
The Horizontal Comradeship of Manifest Destiny | 40 |
Two Interpretations | 47 |
An American Central America Boosters Travelers and the Persistence of Manifest Destiny | 54 |
Redrawing the Map | 59 |
Walker Condemned | 151 |
Walker Celebrated | 158 |
The GrayEyed Man Has Come | 165 |
The Irresistible Pirate Narciso Lopez and the Public Meeting | 170 |
Martial Manhood Comes Home | 178 |
American Women Abroad | 197 |
Manifest Domesticity in Latin America | 200 |
Removing White American Women from Latin America | 215 |
Manifest Destiny and the Travelers Encounter with Central America | 78 |
American Men Abroad Sex and Violence in the Latin American Travelogue | 88 |
Race and Manifest Destiny | 91 |
Looking at the Latin American Man | 96 |
The Manly American | 106 |
Looking at Latin American Women | 112 |
The Irresistible American | 123 |
William Walker and the Regeneration of Martial Manhood | 135 |
Substance versus Trappings in the Construction of Manly Character | 139 |
The Promise of Regeneration | 147 |
Female Filibusters? Lucy Holcombe and Cora Montgomery | 221 |
Manifest Destiny and Manly Missionaries Expansionism in the Pacific | 231 |
The Game Cock | 232 |
Annexationists Consider Hawaii | 243 |
Restrained Manhood in Hawaii | 254 |
The Perry Expedition to Japan 18521854 | 261 |
American Manhood and War 1860 to the Present | 269 |
Bibliography | 283 |
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