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Book Review


True Women & Westward Expansion. By Adrienne Caughfield. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. xii, 178 pp. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-409-X.)
In True Women & Westward Expansion, Adrienne Caughfield explores women's involvement in the American expansionism of the early and mid-nineteenth century, focusing on Texas as "an excellent [venue for] study" in this regard (p. 5). She examines the concept of "manifest destiny" that accompanied this expansionism, looking at how both images of women and women's own words and actions reflected the idea that Americans had "the divine sanction of Providence" to spread a "Western, civilized lifestyle" (p. 13). . . .
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