Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Prologue to Manifest Destiny : Anglo-American Relations in the 1840's, Hardback Book

Prologue to Manifest Destiny : Anglo-American Relations in the 1840's Hardback

Hardback

Item not Available

Description

During the 1840s the United States and England were in conflict over two unsettled territories along the undefined Canadian-American border.

This riveting account of the Maine and Oregon boundary treaties is brought to life masterfully by Professors Howard Jones and Donald Rakestraw.

The events in this story paved the way for one of the most far-reaching developments in American history: the age of expansion.

The United States gradually came to believe in manifest destiny, the irreversible expansion of the States across the continent.

The country?s success with England in resolving the two territorial disputes marked the dawn of this new era.

Complicating the U.S.-English situation in the 1840s was a border conflict brewing with Mexico.

Failure to resolve the disputes with England might have led the United States to war with two nations at once.

Careful negotiations led to settlements with England instead of war.

But the United States went to war with Mexico from 1846 to 1848.

Prologue to Manifest Destiny offers a rare, detailed look at the tense Anglo-American relationship during the 1840s and the two agreements reached regarding the land in the Northeast and the Northwest.

Presidents John Tyler and James Polk and the robust master of diplomacy, Daniel Webster, were among the American actors who played center stage in the drama, as well as Britain?s Lord Ashburton, who worked closely with Webster to keep the turbulent conflict over the Northeast territory from escalating into war.

This gripping frontier story will fascinate as it educates.

Prologue to Manifest Destiny is perfect for courses in American history, international relations, and diplomatic history.

Information

Other Formats

Save 15%

£99.00

£83.85

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information