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La Transformación De La Visión De John Quincy Adams Sobre Mexico, Lyon Rathbun
La Transformación De La Visión De John Quincy Adams Sobre Mexico, Lyon Rathbun
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En este artículo se analiza la actitud cambiante frente a Mexico de John Quincy Adams, de ser el primer arquitecto de la expansion territorial de Estados Unidos en la epoca nacional temprana hasta convertirse en ardiente defensor de la integridad territorial de Mexico en los años treinta. El autor se plantea también la siguiente pregunta: ~Que nos dice la transformación de John Quincy Adams sobre las relaciones mas amplias entre Estados Unidos y Mexico? El trabajo muestra como, durante la segunda década del siglo XJX, en la búsqueda de autosuficiencia y ampliación territorial de Estados Unidos, Adams valoraba poco el …
The Debate Over Annexing Texas And The Emergence Of Manifest Destiny, Lyon Rathbun
The Debate Over Annexing Texas And The Emergence Of Manifest Destiny, Lyon Rathbun
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Scholars have long understood that the ideology of manifest destiny congealed out of the millennial ideals embedded in American culture. However, they have not fully appreciated that manifest destiny only became a national ideology by overwhelming the arguments that were first voiced during the Monroe administration to resist the incorporation of Texas into the Union. Understanding how the secular ideals of the classical republican tradition were used to resist the inclusion of Texas can help us understand the crystallization of manifest destiny into a theologized ideology in the 1840s.