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The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny

其他書名	The Ideology of American Expansion, 1844-1860
出版	University of Michigan, 1989
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ul40nQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Territorial expansion rested on the fundamental principles of individual freedom and liberation and constituted the necessary context for a virtuous citizenry of independent yeomen and aggressive entrepreneurs. Expansion, therefore, resonated with the basic premises of Jacksonian America. Because it was such an intense force, expansionism meant that the political source of the Civil War would come to be anchored in the meaning of national expansion. Northerners and southerners viewed the events of these