Research Catalog

Title

When the eagle screamed : the romantic horizon in American expansionism, 1800-1860 / William H. Goetzmann.

Author

Goetzmann, William H.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

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Description

xvii, 146 p. : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

"When the Eagle Screamed argues that America's expansionism between 1800 and 1860 positioned it against some of the world's most powerful and aggressive nations. As the United States moved onto the world scene in this age of Manifest Destiny, it clashed with Britain, France, Russia, Spain, and Mexico. The struggle for Texas and Oregon, the war with Mexico, the postwar adventures and skirmishes in the Caribbean, the penetration of South American and the Far East, the competition for Antarctica and the South Sea Islands, and the drawing of the great Pacific border at Hawaii - all, William Goetzmann argues, arose from romantic ideals of grandeur and destiny."--Jacket.

Subject

• World politics > 19th century
• United States > Foreign relations > 1783-1865
• United States > Territorial expansion

Note

• Originally published: New York : Wiley, 1966. With new pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-128) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Clear-Eyed Men of Destiny -- II. "Will You Come to the Bower ...?" -- III. "England, Beak, Talons, and All" -- IV. "War ... By the Act of Mexico" -- V. "Of Mountains and Mosquitoes and Fever'd Tropic Isles" -- VI. Gazing Westward 'Crost the Sea.

ISBN

080613223X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99055161^

OCLC

42726247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library