Missionaries of Republicanism
Missionaries of Republicanism

Author: John C. Pinheiro

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0199948682

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Winner of the Fr. Paul J. Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which Manifest Destiny and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse. John C. Pinheiro traces the rise to prominence of this discourse, beginning in the 1820s and culminating in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Pinheiro begins with social reformer and Protestant evangelist Lyman Beecher, who was largely responsible for synthesizing seemingly unrelated strands of religious, patriotic, expansionist, and political sentiment into one universally understood argument about the future of the United States. When the overwhelmingly Protestant United States went to war with Catholic Mexico, this "Beecherite Synthesis" provided Americans with the most important means of defining their own identity, understanding Mexicans, and interpreting the larger meaning of the war. Anti-Catholic rhetoric constituted an integral piece of nearly every major argument for or against the war and was so universally accepted that recruiters, politicians, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, evangelical activists, abolitionists, and pacifists used it. It was also, Pinheiro shows, the primary tool used by American soldiers to interpret Mexico's culture. All this activity in turn reshaped the anti-Catholic movement. Preachers could now use caricatures of Mexicans to illustrate Roman Catholic depravity and nativists could point to Mexico as a warning about what America would be like if dominated by Catholics. Missionaries of Republicanism provides a critical new perspective on Manifest Destiny, American republicanism, anti-Catholicism, and Mexican-American relations in the nineteenth century.

Speech of Mr. M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, on the Oregon Question: Delivered in the House of Representatives, U. S., February 5, 1846 (Classic Reprint)
Speech of Mr. M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, on the Oregon Question: Delivered in the House of Representatives, U. S., February 5, 1846 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Meredith Poindexter Gentry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781396740824

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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, on the Oregon Question: Delivered in the House of Representatives, U. S., February 5, 1846 Vote upon this resolution? By such a postponement, we adjustment of the difficulty between the two Governments then come'to the consideration of the question better pre etermine wisely what ought to be done by Congress to n. We 'will then be able to know certainly whether there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848
The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848

Author: University of Texas at Arlington. Libraries

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13:

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This bibliography of the Mexican War holdings of the libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington is the product of more than forty years' collecting and research. As a result of his recognition that Texana collections would be incomplete without items from the period up to the ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo by Mexico in May, 1848, Jenkins Garrett began this bibliography in earnest in the 1950s, at a time when Mexican War items were not even listed as a separate category by collectors. Arranged by chapters according to topics or type of holding, the bibliography is designed to give extensive and accurate descriptive information of approximately 2,500 items of interest to scholars and collectors. Each entry thus includes full title page wording, edition information, collation, other library locations, and notes, though the bibliography is not annotated per se. Extensive appendixes present alternate methods of referencing documents and compilations of data that may prove helpful in studying the Mexican War.