Yet, despite the sweep of Manifest Destiny and the heavy-handed nature of empire, local on-the-ground conditions in Cuba ensured that a tiny island, a mere 90 miles away from the mainland of America, was able to not only exercise its own autonomy but also a considerable degree of ...
Ch 9. Manifest Destiny (1806-1855) Ch 10. Sectional Crisis (1850-1861) Ch 11. American Civil War (1861-1865) Civil War Begins: Northern and Southern Advantages Compared 6:44 Historical Application: The Civil War & 19th Century Historiography First Battle of Bull Run in th...
JC comments:This article is an important reminder that we need to consider the unintended consequences of climate change policy. Climate change mitigation/adaptation as an end in itself can lose sight of why we are even doing this in the first place: protection ofecosystem serviceswould seem to ...
Most of us have vague memories from high school history classes about a war with Mexico which fulfilled a young America's expansionist aspirations to reach its "manifest destiny" — to be a mighty nation stretching across the continent from sea to shining sea. We now live in a period of ...
If Lee Cronbach once made us wince by revealing our political blood, House startles us, exposing neural ties with ethics, technocracy, capitalism, manifest destiny, even craniometry. Popping bluerock metaphors from liberal left to libertarian right, House declares us to be complex creature of ...