Title: Manifest and other destinies
Description: "Manifest and Other Destinies critiques Manifest Destiny's exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States' national identity. Stephanie LeMenager considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of U.S. national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century, back when the West was undeniably many wests, defined by international economic networks linking diverse territories and peoples from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast."--Jacket.
Subjects: American fiction, Frontier and pioneer life in literature, History, History and criticism, In literature, Literature and history, Territorial expansion, Western stories, American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Western stories, history and criticism, West (u.s.), in literature
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
Time periods: 19th century