One of the surprising things to me -- and perhaps Tuchman overstates it -- is America's position as the focus of many Europeans' hope for a better model of how a nation-state should conduct itself internationally, and I feel that not just America's but Europe's dismissal of the policies of Manifest Destiny as irrelevant to the realization of that hope as...well...tragic.
I don't think the difference between Manifest Destiny and American Colonialism is pronounced enough to consider them only loosely related scenarios. I would like to hear what you have to say to the contrary, though.
I certainly agree that betrayal is a more appropriate word than repudiation.
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Date: 2006-08-19 05:15 pm (UTC)I don't think the difference between Manifest Destiny and American Colonialism is pronounced enough to consider them only loosely related scenarios. I would like to hear what you have to say to the contrary, though.
I certainly agree that betrayal is a more appropriate word than repudiation.