Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s.

Canadian Journal of History | April 1, 1998| | Copyright

Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s, by Howard Jones and Donald A. Rakestraw. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1997. xvi, 342 pp. $77.50 U.S. (cloth), $29.50 U.S. (paper).

This detailed study of Anglo-American political and diplomatic affairs from 1837 to 1846 argues that the tangled forces and negotiations behind the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 and the Oregon Treaty of 1846 were a necessary prologue to American continental expansion. Secondly, these treaties ushered in a mid-century rapprochement that softened the uneasy, ...

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