![]() ![]() Third, it wasn’t all about White men women, Native Americans, and African Americans played significant roles on all sides in the politics, military battles, land settlements, and opposition to American encroachments on others’ territories. Second, based on unassailable evidence, crippling payments were exacted from non-White people in the pursuit of Manifest Destiny to conquer much of North America. Three themes run through the book, whose basic narrative concerns the search for “elusive security.” First, nothing was foreordained many nations and peoples fought over the same territory when the American republic was weak and vulnerable. ![]() ![]() His subjects-events, wars, laws, treaties-will be familiar to those who paid attention in their American history courses, but Taylor presents them in fresh, thought-provoking ways. With characteristically graceful prose, he relates the costs and limits, as well as gains and triumphs, of the nation’s sweep westward after the Revolution. The author, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor at the University of Virginia, is among the few historians who would attempt such a history of this single century of the American past. In a book that falls midway between narrative survey and classroom text, Taylor continues the story of the settlement and conquest of what became the lower 48 states. The acclaimed historian offers a relevant follow-up to American Revolutions (2016). ![]()
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