... by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2022 nationalism nation-building nation-state formation national identity kinship Texas military mobilization U.S.-Mexican War Mexican-American War In 1846, the United States invaded Mexico on several fronts, igniting a two-year war...

.... expansion. The authors argue for returning a sense of context and contingency to the understanding of mid-nineteenth-century U.S. expansion. KEYWORDS Manifest Destiny, John L. O Sullivan, James K. Polk, John Quincy Adams, borderlands, Mexico, Texas, California, Oregon For students of nineteenth-century...

... that these settlers, traditionally seen as the vanguard of Manifest Destiny, were attracted to Mexico for its cheap land and rich natural resources. Such interpretations have lent a tone of inevitability to events like the Texas Revolution. This article argues that the early members of these groups were attracted...