Native America, Discovered and Conquered
Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny
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Product details:
- Publisher Praeger
- Date of Publication 30 September 2006
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780275990114
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x155 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day.
The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage-a land route across the continent-in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.
Table of Contents:
Series Foreword
Foreword by Elizabeth Furse
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. The Doctrine of Discovery
2. The Doctrine of Discovery in America
3. Thomas Jefferson and the Doctrine of Discovery
4. Thomas Jefferson, Manifest Destiny, and the Indian Nations
5. Lewis and Clark and Discovery
6. Manifest Destiny and Discovery
7. The United States' Exercise of Discovery against the Indian Nations, 1774-2005
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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