Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Magnificent Distances, Magnificent Intentions CHAPTER 2: Texas, the Black Peril, and Alternatives to Abolitionism CHAPTER 3: Of Swords and Plowshares: Coercion through Commerce CHAPTER 4: Jefferson Redivivus: The Perils of Modernization CHAPTER 5: Continentalism and the Color Line CHAPTER 6: American Exceptionalism, American Empire CHAPTER 7 Divided They Fell: The Demise of Democratic Expansionism CHAPTER 8 The Myths of Manifest Destiny A Note on Sources Index

About the Author

Thomas R. Hietala is Professor of History at Grinnell College.