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Book Review
| Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Stephanie LeMenager. Postwestern Horizons Series. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. viii + 285 pp. Notes, index. $50.00.)
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In Manifest Destinies, LeMenager traces the complex, often contradictory unfolding of American nationhood. Drawing on the works of a diverse body of nineteenth-century authors, LeMenager painstakingly analyzes the explicit and implicit challenges the writers offer to the inevitability of Manifest Destiny as an imperative course the United States would embrace. |
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