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Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (review)

Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (review) 554 Southwestern Historical Quarterly April Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. By Amy S. Greenberg. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pg. 342. Acknowledgments, illustra- tions, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0521840961. $75.00, cloth. ISBN 0521600804. $25.99, paper.) Amy Greenberg’s study Manifest Manhood provides an intriguing new interpreta- tion of the meaning of Manifest Destiny and the discourse of American expansionism during the middle part of the nineteenth century. Reversing commonly held histori- cal interpretations, Greenberg convincingly shows that Manifest Destiny continued to hold its appeal to Americans after the Mexican-American War. Proponents of aggressive expansionism viewed the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Central America as the “new frontiers” in need of conquering. Between the conclusion of the Mexi- can-American War and the outbreak of the Civil War, the practice of filibustering, the invasion of foreign territory by private American mercenaries without official government approval, rose to epidemic proportions. Based on the investigation of an array of written documents, letters, journals, political cartoons, and newspapers, Greenberg analyzes the meaning of Manifest Destiny for American men and women during the 1840s and 1850s in the context of gender. She contends that radical changes in American society, economy, and culture during the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Southwest Center (Univ of Arizona)

Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (review)

Grytz, Gerhard.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 110 (4) – Jun 11, 2007
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554 Southwestern Historical Quarterly April Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. By Amy S. Greenberg. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pg. 342. Acknowledgments, illustra- tions, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0521840961. $75.00, cloth. ISBN 0521600804. $25.99, paper.) Amy Greenberg’s study Manifest Manhood provides an intriguing new interpreta- tion of the meaning of Manifest Destiny and the discourse of American expansionism during the middle part of the nineteenth century. Reversing commonly held histori- cal interpretations, Greenberg convincingly shows that Manifest Destiny continued to hold its appeal to Americans after the Mexican-American War. Proponents of aggressive expansionism viewed the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Central America as the “new frontiers” in need of conquering. Between the conclusion of the Mexi- can-American War and the outbreak of the Civil War, the practice of filibustering, the invasion of foreign territory by private American mercenaries without official government approval, rose to epidemic proportions. Based on the investigation of an array of written documents, letters, journals, political cartoons, and newspapers, Greenberg analyzes the meaning of Manifest Destiny for American men and women during the 1840s and 1850s in the context of gender. She contends that radical changes in American society, economy, and culture during the

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