{"product_id":"inventing-destiny-bryan-9780700628186","title":"Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of Us Expansion","description":"The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed \"manifest destiny\" in many different ways--and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, \u003ci\u003eInventing Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e offers a broad yet penetrating cultural history of nineteenth-century US territorial acquisition--a history that gives voice to the underrepresented actors who significantly complicated US narratives of empire, from Native Americans and Anglo-American women to anti- and non-national expansionists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributors--established and emerging scholars from history, American studies, literary studies, art history, and religious studies--make use of source materials and techniques as various as artwork, religion, geospatial analysis, interior colonialism, and storytelling alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. In doing so, they seek to illuminate the complexities rather than simplify, to transgress borders rather than redraw them, and to amplify the under-told stories rather than repeat the old ones. Their work identifies and explores the obscure--or obscured--fictions of expansion, seeking a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of culture creation and recognizing those who resisted US territorial aggrandizement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn sum, \u003ci\u003eInventing Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the value of cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the multiple rationales, critiques, interventions, and contingencies of nineteenth-century US expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700628185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700628186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2020","brand":"Bryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159214682367,"sku":"9780700628186","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_101c0547-bf5e-4a68-b274-f4698879216d.jpg?v=1689081281","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-destiny-bryan-9780700628186","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}