To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Manifest Destiny.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Manifest Destiny'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 35 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Manifest Destiny.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Craig, Clinton. "Arizhio: Tales of Glorious Manifest Destiny." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2046.
Full textAbstract:
This is a book of short stories with a critical introduction. In theme, the stories seek to find the border between the Midwest and the Southwest of America by focusing on Ohio and Arizona. Some of the stories seek to exemplify “experimental” fiction, while the critical introduction seeks to define “experimental.” In addition, the introduction theorizes about the role of setting in linking collections and characterization.
2
Wilson, Eric C. "Manifest destiny : a symphony for wind ensemble." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1281300.
Full text
3
Fischer, Andreas. "Monroe-Doktrin und Manifest Destiny : Konzeptionen amerikanischer Außenpolitik 1823-1848 /." Taunusstein : Driesen, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2899634&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full text
4
Fischer, Andreas. "Monroe-Doktrin und Manifest Destiny Konzeptionen amerikanischer Aussenpolitik 1823 - 1848." Taunusstein Driesen, 2002. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2899634&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full text
5
Pattee, Julie Anne. "A ceiling of blue: swimming pools, movie stars and manifest destiny." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96752.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis explores the relationship between the social history and the filmic history of the swimming pool. The history of the swimming pool and the history of the movies wove themselves together during the first half of the twentieth century. By 1950, the image of the swimming pool and the image of the movie star were connected in the social imaginary. Discourses about gender, health, discipline and the body were moulded by the architectural environment of the swimming pool, when the movies translated the image of the swimming pool, they carried these ideas along with them. These ideas affected the formation of modern subjectivities. This thesis attempts to demonstrate one of the means by which a particular set of ideas infiltrated the collective psycheCette thèse examine le rapport entre l'histoire sociale et l'histoire filmique de la piscine. Elle tente de démonter le moyen par lequel une tendance particulier c'est inflirté dans la psyché collective. L'histoire de la piscine et l'histoire du cinema se sont entrelacé au cours de la prèmiere moitier du vingtieme sciècle. Par l'année 1950, l'image de la piscine et l'image de la vedette étaient liés dans l'imagination sociale. Les discours au sujet de sexe, la santé, la discipline et le corps étaient façonné par l'environment architecturale de la piscine. Losque le cinéma traduit l'image de la piscine, il emporte ces idées avec. Ces idées affectent la formation des subjectivités moderne. Cette thèse tente de dèmontrer le moyen par lequel une tendance particulier c'est infiltré dans la psyché collective.
6
Coffman, Natalie Brooke. "The Mormon Battalion's Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Identity during the Mexican-American War." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/509.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines the experience of the Mormon Battalion, a group of five hundred Mormon soldiers commissioned by President James K. Polk to enlist in the U.S. military and aid in the newly declared war against Mexico in 1846. The war was a result of a belligerent and aggressive form of territorial expansion justified by the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Polk and many other Americans believed it was their Manifest Destiny to dominate a continental nation, and the Mormon Battalion was assigned to march to California to conquer Mexican territory for the United States. An examination of the Mormon soldiers' journals and letters, as well as official Mormon Church records and correspondence, reveals that, despite participating in a war that promoted aggressive expansion, the Mormons' understanding of Manifest Destiny contained unique perspectives regarding racial hierarchies and displays of masculinity, key elements of that popular ideology. The peculiar approach that the Mormons' had to Manifest Destiny was directly influenced by their history as a persecuted body of believers. Ultimately, the Mormon soldiers agreed to volunteer for the war not because they wanted to express patriotism, but because they had a firm dedication to their church and resolved obedience to their leader, Brigham Young.
Additionally, an examination of popular contemporary media outlets and their responses to the enlistment of the Mormon Battalion, as well as the relevant historiography, is included to demonstrate the evolution of the Mormon Battalion in historical memory, both inside and outside the Mormon Church. The treatment of the battalion by popular media outlets reflected changing attitudes regarding the implications of promoting a martial and aggressive society, while the role of the battalion in Mormon history evolved in tandem with Mormons' fluctuating identities as U.S. citizens.
7
Ystebo, Derek. "Our Sister Republic: Creating Mexico in the Minds of the American Public and the Role of the Press." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26540.
Full textAbstract:
During the Mexican War, Americans radically transformed their ideas about Mexicans
and Mexican-Americans. The Mexican War offered itself up as the first of such interactions
between the neighboring republics. The Mexican during the War was met largely with criticism
from the American public, a criticism aided by the work of the press. While a vast majority of
the presses disparaged the Mexican populace on a variety of subjects, not all papers denigrated
the Mexicans as some inferior population in need of assistance from the United States in order to
survive and reach a proper level of civilization. Papers such as the Catholic and abolitionist
presses sought to portray the Mexican in a more positive light. Analysis of these spheres of
influence of the various presses offers up a genesis of the Mexican within the American
imagination.
8
McDonough, Matthew Davitian. "Manifestly uncertain destiny: the debate over American expansionism, 1803-1848." Diss., Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13108.
Full textAbstract:
Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of History
Charles W. Sanders
Americans during the first half of the nineteenth-century were obsessed with expansion. God had bestowed upon them an innate superiority in nearly all things. American settlers were culturally, economically, racially and politically superior to all others. But how accurate are such statements? Did a majority of Americans support such declarations? The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Americans wrote and read about expansion. Doing so reveals that for every citizen extolling the unique greatness of Americans, one questioned such an assumption. For every American insisting that the nation must expand to the Pacific coast to be successful there was one who disdained expansion and sought to industrialize what territory the nation already possessed. Americans during the first half of the nineteenth century were of many minds about expansion. The destiny of the United States was anything but manifest. Using a wealth of nineteenth century newspapers this dissertation demonstrates that the concept of Manifest Destiny was far less popular than previously imagined. Newspapers were the primary source of information and their contents endlessly debated. Editors from around the country expressed their own views and eagerly published pertinent letters to the editor that further detailed how Americans perceived expansion. While many people have often read John O’Sullivan’s rousing words he was not necessarily indicative of American sentiment. For every article espousing the importance of acquiring Florida to deny it to the British there was one deriding the notion because they felt Florida to be nothing but a worthless swamp filled with hostile Indians. American justification and opposition to territorial expansion followed no grand strategy. Instead, its most fascinating characteristic was its dynamic nature. In the Southwest expansionist proponents argued that annexation would liberate the land from Papist masters, while opponents questioned the morality of such a conquest. Encouraging or discouraging territorial expansion could take on innumerable variations and it is this flexible rhetoric that the dissertation focuses upon. The debate that raged in the public forum over expansion was both heated and fascinating. The voices of both pro and anti-expansionists were crucial to the development of antebellum America.
9
SILVA, Maurineide Alves da. "Guerra, nação e cinema: uma leitura filmográfica sobre as motivações norte-americanas para a ação beligerante." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2319.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
Dissertacao Maurineide Alves da Silva.pdf: 991986 bytes, checksum: 111fb6a28f609b9364d02765fa3f1a9a (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2011-09-27The United States is a country of tradition belligerent. It is common to find in their public squares and monuments statues of military figures, in addition to reserve specific days to honor them, military parades and ceremonies are displayed in various regions of the country and numerous film productions are performed representing the U.S. involvement in world conflicts. It is felt that the war is part of its fundamental characteristics. Seeking to understand the aspects that have built this tradition and thus marked the history of the United States military interventions around the world, without limiting ourselves to explanations that emphasize only the imperialist interests, but taking into account ideological and dogmatic aspects, we reach a ideology formulated in the nineteenth century, in order to justify the U.S. right to intervene in another nation: the ideology of Manifest Destiny. The three ideas that form the three show Manifest Destiny of American beliefs that are part of their national identity and profoundly marked its history: Puritanism, democracy and capitalism. To peer into the permanence of these three beliefs motivating the U.S. military interventions in the XXI century and still seek mainly new elements that enrich our historical understanding of the American society in his belligerent relations with other regions of the world, analyze imagery of a document period, the film Black Hawk Down (Black Hawk Down, Hidley Scott, 2001), which refers to U.S. military intervention in Somalia in 1993 and eventually present the vision of its directors on the subject. As one of the forms of cultural expression more representative of the United States, the film ends up a material extremely rich set of information about the beliefs and customs United States.
Os Estados Unidos são um país de tradição beligerante. É comum encontrar em suas praças públicas estátuas e monumentos de figuras militares, além de reservarem dias específicos para homenageá-los; desfiles e cerimônias militares são exibidos em diversas regiões do país e inúmeras produções cinematográficas são realizadas representando a participação norte-americana em conflitos mundiais. Percebe-se que a guerra faz parte de suas características fundamentais. Buscando entender os aspectos que construíram tal tradição e, consequentemente, marcaram a história dos Estados Unidos com intervenções militares por todo o mundo, sem nos limitarmos a explicações que ressaltam apenas os interesses imperialistas, mas levando em consideração aspectos dogmáticos e ideológicos, chegamos a uma ideologia formulada no século XIX, com o objetivo de justificar o direito norte-americano de intervir em outra nação: a ideologia do Destino Manifesto. As três idéias que formam o Destino Manifesto mostram três crenças do norte-americano que fazem parte de sua identidade nacional e que marcaram profundamente sua história: o puritanismo, a democracia e o capitalismo. Para perscrutar a permanência dessas três crenças motivando as intervenções militares norte-americanas ainda no século XXI e principalmente buscar elementos novos que enriqueçam a nossa compreensão histórica sobre a sociedade norte-americana em sua relação beligerante com outras regiões do mundo, analiso um documento imagético desse período, a produção cinematográfica Falcão Negro em Perigo (Black Hawk Down, Hidley Scott, 2001), que se reporta à intervenção militar norte-americana na Somália em 1993 e acaba por apresentar a visão de seus realizadores sobre o tema. Sendo uma das formas de manifestação cultural mais representativa dos Estados Unidos, o cinema acaba por configurar um material extremamente rico de informações a respeito das crenças e costumes norte-americanos.
10
Jordan, Benjamin Thomas. "Synthetic Landscapes." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4303.
Full textAbstract:
My work explores the complex social geography of modern society and the intricate relationship between mankind and the environment. Through this work I explore the past and present lineage of manifest destiny, from its beginnings in Europe to western expansion in America, to forms it has takes in contemporary America. These ceramic forms serve as the conceptual grounds to explore the romanticizing of the western landscape especially from an individual and group perspective. I simultaneously celebrate the history of the pastoral life while questioning the authenticity, and motivations of that lifestyle, and use this platform as a jumping off point to ask questions about humanities complicated relationship with nature. Through hand-labor, contemplative making, and a reverence for tradition, I explore both interrelated and divergent human perceptions using clay as my primary medium.
11
Richards, Thomas W. "The Texas Moment: Breakaway Republics and Contested Sovereignty in North America, 1836-1846." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/418132.
Full textAbstract:
HistoryPh.D.
Between 1845 and 1848, the United States doubled the size of its land holdings in North America, as Texas, Oregon, California, New Mexico, and other western regions were placed under the umbrella of U.S. sovereignty. Echoing John L. O’Sullivan’s famous phrase, historians have deemed these acquisitions “Manifest Destiny,” and have assumed that U.S. expansion – whether for good or ill – was foreordained. Yet this understanding fundamentally fails to take into account the history of the decade prior to 1846, when Americans throughout the continent believed that it was more likely that the United States would not expand beyond its borders. Examining five groups of Americans operating at the nations geographic and/or social margins, this dissertation argues that these groups hoped to achieve sovereignty outside of the United States. Nurtured by Jacksonian rhetoric that celebrated local government and personal ambition, and wary of – and at times running from – a United States mired in depression and uncertainty, these Americans were, in effect, forming their own “breakaway republics.” To validate their goal of self-sovereignty, breakaway republicans looked to the independent Republic of Texas, often referring to Texas to explain their objectives, or looking to Texas as an ally in achieving them. Between 1836 and 1845 – what this dissertation defines as “the Texas Moment” – Texas’ independent existence presupposed a different map of North America, where peoples of the northern, southern, and western borderlands carved out polities for themselves. With Texas in mind, even Americans who did not share the goals of breakaway republicans believed that independent American-led polities on the continent were likely, acceptable, and perhaps even desired. However, to a cabal of Democratic expansionists and James K. Polk in particular, this future was unacceptable. After winning the presidency after an unlikely series of contingencies in 1844, Polk and his allies laid the groundwork for a dramatic expansion of the U.S. state – and thereby a dramatic expansion of U.S. territory. Their actions ended the Texas Moment, thereby subsuming the actions of breakaway republicans and hiding their collective existence from later historians. Ultimately, the events of the mid-1840s were hardly the logical culmination of America’s expansionist destiny, but a profound rupture of the status quo.
Temple University--Theses
12
Havens, William Michael 1946. "Intercultural dynamics of the Hopi-Navajo land dispute: Concepts of colonialism and manifest destiny in the Southwest." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278480.
Full textAbstract:
Territorial growth of Indian lands under American domination seems to be inconsistent with the expressed goals of a dominant society and is certainly inconsistent with the patterns reflected in the relationships between Indian communities and the United States. How is it that in this atmosphere fueled by the desire to take land from Tribes the Navajo Nation grew from 3.5 million acres in 1868 to over 16 million acres (a 358% increase) while their neighbors, the Hopis, lost over 40% of their original reservation land and most other tribes, as well, have lost much of their traditional use areas? This research attempts to answer these questions while testing the theory that Navajo expansion has been through a unique form of colonialism driven by a religiously rooted sense of Manifest Destiny. The results should provide insights for historians, practitioners of Indian Law, political scientists, and tribal leaders.
13
Edley, Christopher. "Riding into myth: Manifest Destiny, Nietzschean ethics and the creation of a new western frontier mythology in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7334.
Full textAbstract:
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a provocative evocation of the American West that has attracted a wide range of critical responses. This study has three foci: the novel as epic myth, McCarthy’s critique of Manifest destiny, and the influence of Nietzschean philosophy on the judge and McCarthy’s portrayal of the human condition. These concerns conduce to an alternative reading of the conclusion of the novel. Blood Meridian is a unique textual enterprise as it both conforms to and subverts mythic conventions associated with both Classical epic and the American West. Recognition of the resonances between Blood Meridian and these mythologies helps the reader to engage with McCarthy’s ambitious creation of a powerful literary allegory in the tradition of Twain and Faulkner. Having situated McCarthy’s enterprise within these co-ordinates, the study then moves on to examine the novel’s stunning critique of Manifest Destiny, in the context of the implications that such thinking has had on American foreign policy over the past two centuries, and that continue to inspire American involvement in military conflicts well into the twenty-first century. The final area of focus is the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on the character of the judge and the weltanschauung that the novel presents. McCarthy’s ultimate objective is to demonstrate that humankind’s most basic condition is an inherently violent one. The more critically accepted reading of the novel is challenged by postulating the kid’s triumph over the judge as not only in keeping with the literary tradition of Melville and others but also a logical outcome of the novel’s allegory of American military involvement in Vietnam. The study concludes that whilst McCarthy has gone on to receive critical acclaim and public praise for works published after Blood Meridian, this work remains both his artistic masterpiece and his most far-reaching engagement with issues of eschatological and political importance. It is argued that, given the contemporary escalation in geo-political tensions, Blood Meridian may well continue to provide insight into the nature of American domestic and foreign policy for decades to come.
14
Cowan, David Fraser. "The best sin to commit : a theological strategy of Niebuhrian classical realism to challenge the Religious Right and neoconservative advancement of manifest destiny in American foreign policy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4202.
Full textAbstract:
While few would deny America is the most powerful nation on earth, there is considerable debate, and controversy, over how America uses its foreign policy power. This is even truer since the “unipolar moment,” when America gained sole superpower status with the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In the Cold War Reinhold Niebuhr was the main theological voice speaking to American power. In the Unipolar world, the Religious right emerged as the main theological voice, but instead of seeking to curb American power the Religious right embraced Neoconservatism in what I will call “Totemic Conservatism” to support use of America's power in the world and to triumph Manifest destiny in American foreign policy, which is the notion that America is a chosen nation, and this legitimizes its use of power and underpins its moral claims. I critique the Niebuhrian and Religious right legacies, and offer a classical realist strategy for theology to speak to America power and foreign policy, which avoids the neoconservative and religious conservative error of totemism, while avoiding the jettisoning of Niebuhr's theology by political liberals, and, the political ghettoizing of theology by his chief critics. This strategy is based on embracing the understanding of classical realism, but not taking the next step, which both Niebuhr and neoconservativism ultimately do, of moving from a prescriptive to a predictive strategy for American foreign policy. In this thesis, I argue that in the wake of the unipolar moment the embrace of the Religious right of Neoconservatism to triumph Manifest destiny in American foreign policy is a problematic commingling of faith and politics, and what is needed instead is a strategy of speaking to power rooted in classical realism but one which refines Niebuhrian realism to avoid the risk of progressing a Constantinian theology.
15
MacDonald, Kelsey M. "Apparent Fate, 2010: Dismantling the Notion of Photographic Truth." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/18.
Full textAbstract:
When creating a current work, artists cannot ignore the images that have preceded theirs. The history of a medium and the related history of subject matter is vital to the meaning of a new art work. Each sign and symbol has a connotation out of the artists’ control. The developed meaning of a symbol is inseparable for the viewer regardless of the acknowledgment of that meaning by the artist. To work with imagery and not address it’s historical context is to perpetuate it’s meaning. The only way to not state what has already been stated is to critically engage with the preexisting meaning of the imagery. An artist can combine symbols to create dual meanings or juxtapositions of meaning, or present the imagery in a way that complicates what it already signifies. “Apparent Fate,”my combined negative, photographic mural, uses imagery from Yosemite National Park to comment on photography’s function or purpose in history and in the current economic, political, environmental, and social conditions in California and society’s current stance on Manifest Destiny. How have the ideas of innate rights over people and places changed over time in American culture?
16
Hepworth, Graham. "Manifestations of Capitalism from a Marxist Perspective : A comparison of Cultural Values and Moral Codes in Moby Dick and David Copperfield." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26827.
Full textAbstract:
This is a study of Charles Dickens David Copperfield and Herman Melville Moby Dick from a Marxist perspective, exploring the different manifestations of the capitalist system, with critical reference to the theories of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton. It will attempt to understand cultural differences, values and moral codes, that the two novels reveal about Victorian England and Antebellum America, at this point in literary history, the decade of time with 1850 at its centre. The thesis will explore how the cultural legacy and ambitions of each nation is represented in each of the novels. By comparing the central themes of each work, the study will attempt to illustrate how capitalism is expressed specifically in each nation.
17
Andersson, Kjerstin. "Frihetens kamp mot ondskan. Nationellt meningsskapande i USA efter den 11 september 2001." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2304.
Full textAbstract:
This is a paper about the process of creating meaning in speeches held by president Bush after the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. People need tools to orient and understand the surrounding world. They need to create a meaningful orientation in a chaotic world. Some meaning is favoured due to the prevailing social structures. Thru language discourses are produced that helps us understand how the world is constructed. The national state is a discourse that make the world understandable. The discourse create a natural perception of the world as divided into nations. A grand narrative is a story that explain incomprehensive occurrences in society. In times of war these stories become crucial. It is necessary to demonise the enemy to legitimise ones actions.
In the US a myth of origin is built around the concept of Manifest Destiny. The myth constitutes that the nation has a unique mission from God to save the rest of the world. In the story retelling the events of September 11th president Bush presents a solution to the problem of terrorists threatening to divide the nation. The nation is constantly on the brink of falling apart. The solution is unity. President Bush recreate the story of USA and the terrorist attacks in a meaningful way, and portrays the nation as a natural entity. The enemy is the evil force that unites the nation.
18
Hoefel, Brian Adam. "Trains, Steamers, and Slavers: The Antebellum Southern Commercial Conventions and American Empire." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1333561407.
Full text
19
Blubaugh, Chris. "James K. Polk: Territorial Expansionist and the Evolution of Presidential Power." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1366285865.
Full text
20
Horton, Justin Garrett. "The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2025.
Full textAbstract:
At the close of the American Civil War some southerners unwilling to remain in a reconstructed South, elected to immigrate to areas of Central and South America to reestablish a Southern antebellum lifestyle.
The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern nationalism in the antebellum era directly influenced post-bellum expatriates to attempt colonization in Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.
A comparison between the antebellum language of expansionists, southern nationalists, and the language of the expatriates will elucidate the connection to the pre-Civil War expansionist mindset that southern émigrés drew upon when attempting colonization in foreign lands.
21
Nowak, Steve. "On Historical Missions and Modern Phenomena: A Comparison of Germany and the USA on their Way towards the Second World War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1708.
Full textAbstract:
There are surprisingly detailed similarities between Germany and the USA on their way towards the Second World War. In this paper, I have compared the nations' expansionist philosophies, their encounter with racism, and the internal conflicts between authoritarian leadership and democracy.
I began with an overview of Manifest Destiny and the German myth of the East. Next, I summed up the deep changes that the First World War caused for both societies and how they went into the Great Depression. I examined the rise of scientific racism as part of the international eugenics movement and the emergence of populist leaders during the economic crisis.
It became clear that neither expansionism nor racism were genuine German ideologies. In fact, the American Manifest Destiny served as a role-model for German plans in the East. Even the racist concepts of the Third Reich were strongly influenced by American scientists. The main difference seems to be the experience with the First World War and the diversity of American protest during the crisis.
22
GLENN, DANIEL PATRICK. "FACING WEST FROM NIAGARA'S SHORES: COMPETITION, COMMERCE, AND EXPANSIONISM ON THE US-CANADIAN BORDER, 1810-1855." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1195071880.
Full text
23
Barros, Mateus de Sá Barreto. "O labirinto da colonização: México, território e \'destino manifesto\'." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8161/tde-02062017-094102/.
Full textAbstract:
Este trabalho constitui uma análise focada nas ações do Estado frente aos povos originários/camponeses e à sociedade mexicana como um todo, devido à redefinição do processo de colonização no sul-sudeste do México, região com maior concentração dos povos originários/camponeses. O ano de 2014 foi, para os mexicanos, de grandes mudanças, pelo advento das reformas na constituição empreendidas pelo governo de Enrique Peña Nieto, as Reformas Estruturais. Em 2016, o presidente mexicano já havia efetivado onze reformas. O que chamou mais atenção foi o fato de a população mexicana, de modo geral, pesquisadores e estudantes, mais especificamente, espantarem-se com a insistência na Integração Física, haja vista acreditarem que tal projeto havia sido interrompido pelo grande número de protestos e a crise de 2008/2010. A mídia, antes interessada, não mencionava nada a respeito, mas o processo de integração continuava a todo vapor. A análise documental do projeto de Integração Física Regional e seus desdobramentos atuais configura-se como o objetivo maior do presente trabalho. Os estudiosos utilizados estão sob a égide do materialismo histórico marxiano que, afinal, é, reconhecidamente entendido pelo próprio Marx, o mais importante a ser considerado em suas produções o que diferencia o decolonialismo do realizado pelos pensadores europeus é pôr a América Latina no centro do mapa, elucidando como o continente foi forjado, geográfica e filosoficamente e como os conceitos aqui elaborados serviram para a expansão das relações imperialistas do capitalismo, especialmente, o conceito de raça. Assim, buscou-se evidenciar como os conceitos (espaço e tempo) foram apropriados pela Europa para a constituição do continente latino-americano, para a partir disto pensar o continente na conformação do sistemamundo- capitalista, ou melhor, a reprodução das relações imperialistas. Explicou-se as relações interamericanas atuais a partir da história, pois ao contrário do que se imagina é de longa data, remete-se ao século XIX. Além disso, evidenciou-se o posicionamento do México a partir da mudança de eixo da Europa para os Estados Unidos no pós-guerra até a adesão ao Tratado de Livre Comércio do Norte. Por fim, dedicou-se à análise do projeto de Integração Física Regional, prioritariamente, a participação do México, a sua liderança frente ao Plan Puebla Panamá, as consequências para a sociedade. O intuito é situar o Plano, por isso, fez-se um levantamento histórico, além de analisar o Capítulo México, Documento Base e abordar a organização indígena e campesina, as lutas empreendidas contra o Plano e a íntima conexão existente entre as relações internacionais e as dinâmicas internas da sociedade mexicana.This work constitutes an analysis focused on the actions of the State towards native / peasant peoples and Mexican society as a whole, due to the redefinition of the colonization process in the south-southeast of Mexico, a region with a greater concentration of native / peasant peoples. The year of 2014 was, for the Mexicans, of great changes, by the advent of the reforms in the constitution undertaken by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, the \"Structural Reforms\". By 2016, the Mexican president had already effected eleven reforms. What attracted the most attention was the fact that the Mexican population, in general, researchers and students, more specifically, are surprised by the insistence on Physical Integration, since they believe that this project had been interrupted by the great number of protests and the Crisis of 2008/2010. The media, once interested, did not mention anything about it, but the process of integration continued in full swing. The documentary analysis of the Regional Physical Integration project and its current developments is the main goal of this study. The scholars used are under the aegis of Marxian historical materialism - which, after all, is, admittedly understood by Marx himself, the most important to be considered in his productions - what differentiates decolonialism from that realized by the European thinkers is to put Latin America in the Center of the map, elucidating how the continent was forged, geographically and philosophically and how the concepts elaborated here served to expand the imperialist relations of capitalism, especially the concept of race. Thus, it was tried to show how the concepts (space and time) were appropriated by Europe for the constitution of the Latin American continent, from this to think the continent in the conformation of the world-capitalist system, or rather, the reproduction of relations Imperialists. The current inter-American relations have been explained from history, since contrary to what one imagines is a long time, it refers to the nineteenth century. In addition, Mexico\'s positioning was evident from the shift from Europe to the United States in the postwar period until accession to the North Free Trade Agreement. Finally, he focused on the analysis of the Regional Physical Integration project, primarily the participation of Mexico, its leadership in relation to the Plan Puebla Panama, the consequences for society. The intention is to situate the Plan, so a historical survey was made, besides analyzing the Mexico Chapter, Base Document and addressing the indigenous and peasant organization, the struggles against the Plan and the close connection between international relations and the internal dynamics of Mexican society.
24
Romano, Cara L. "Gallery 66 selling the Southwest /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1194999497.
Full text
25
COSSIGA, ANNA MARIA. "Wilderness e Indiani nella costruzione dell’identità etnica americana." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/587.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this work is to analyze the formation and development of the ethnic and national identity of the United States through the study of American literature.
In the first part the basic concepts of ethnic identity, culture in th social sense and myth are analyzed from a theoretical poin of view.
The second part is dedicated firtly to the study of the complex relation between the conquerors and th American territory (wilderness) and its inhabitants : the Indians; and secondly to the impact that the cultural construction of such relation has had on the behavior of the American social environment both in domestic and foreign politics.
26
Christie, Angela. "Cultural Biography : The Ethnic Identity of Cherokee Women of North America and the Symbolism of the Sacred, Consonant Circle, 1540-Present." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030174.
Full textAbstract:
Les Indiens cherokees, une ancienne tribu matrilinéaire nord-américaine, ont autrefois occupé la vaste région du sud des Appalaches aux États-Unis. Depuis l'arrivée de De Soto en 1540, les Européens et leurs successeurs euro-américains ont colonisé la très riche patrie cherokee au nom de la destinée manifeste. Des épidémies les ont frappés à plusieurs reprises et après la découverte d'or sur le territoire cherokee, le Président Andrew Jackson et le Congrès américain ont ordonné l'expulsion de presque 17. 000 Cherokees, qui ont été forcé à effectuer une marche de plus de 2000 kilomètres vers l'Oklahoma en 1838-39. Sur cette « Piste des larmes », environ 4. 000 Cherokees sont morts et de nombreux autres ont péri l'année suivante. Très tôt, les patriarcats européens et américains ont aussi essayé d'éliminer les puissantes femmes cherokees de la gouvernance tribale. Alors, les pensionnats ont été conçus pour détruire leur culture tenace et les enfants cherokees ont été enlevés afin d'être christianisé et assimilé dans la société américaine dominante. En dépit des traités violés, de l'expulsion et des pressions pour l'assimilation, qui dure maintenant depuis des siècles, le système de clan matrilinéaire a survécu. Guidées par Selu, la Mère du Maïs, les femmes cherokees sont restées les gardiennes de la conscience sociale, politique, et religieuse de la tribu, et elles continuent à être influencées par le paradigme du cercle sacré qui est au centre de leur vision du monde. L'approche ethno-historique de cette biographie culturelle des femmes cherokees révèle leurs tragédies et leurs triomphesThe Cherokee Indians, an ancient matrilineal North American tribe, once occupied the vast Southern Appalachian region of the United States. After De Soto's arrivai in 1540, Europeans and their Euro-American successors colonized in the name of Manifest Destiny the abundant Cherokee homelands. Epidemics repeatedly struck, and after discovery of gold on Cherokee land, President Andrew Jackson and the U. S. Congress ordered the removal of some 17,000 Cherokees who were forced to march over 1,200 miles to Oklahoma in 1838-39. On the "Trail of Tears," around 4,000 Cherokees died, and many more perished the next year. Early-on, the European and American patriarchies also attempted to remove the powerful Cherokee women from tribal governance. Boarding schools were then created to destroy their tenacious culture, and Cherokee children were taken to be Christianized and assimilated into mainstream American society. In spite of broken treaties, Removal, and assimilation pressures now spanning centuries, the matrilineal clan system has survived. Guided by Selu, the Corn Mother, Cherokee women have remained the guardians of the tribe's social, political, and religious consciousness, and they continue to be influenced by the paradigm of the sacred, consonant circle central to their worldview. The ethnohistorical approach of this cultural biography of Cherokee women reveals their tragedies and triumphs
27
Lorrain, Stéphanie. "Espace privé et espace public dans le récit longs de Nathaniel Hawthorne." Metz, 2006. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/2007/Lorrain.Stephanie.LMZ0615.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
Cette analyse recherche la trace de la construction de l’identité culturelle, politique, et sociale des Etats-Unis dans les récits longs de Nathaniel Hawthorne. Elle tente de repérer les discours publics (de la famille, de l’éducation, de la philanthropie, de religion, de l'économie, de la médecine) dans l'œuvre de l'auteur. Pour ce faire, nous essayons de saisir les processus qui contribuèrent à l'élaboration des structures de la société américaine. Celles-ci se présentent comme des cadres essentiels au fonctionnement de la société et à l'articulation du rapport entre l’individu et le groupe. Nous essayons de comprendre comment Nathaniel Hawthorne percevait les changements politiques, économiques et sociaux engendrés par la modernisation de son pays. En d’autres termes, nous souhaitons montrer comment il percevait l’espace privé et l’espace public, notions que nous prenons soin de définir au début de cette thèse. Nous tentons également de cerner comment l'auteur se représentait la relation entre l'individu et le groupe. Les quatre récits longs de Hawthorne constituent le corpus d’étude : The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852) et The Marble Faun (1860). Les contes et les nouvelles ont été exclus du corpus de par leur brièvetéIn the nineteenth-century American society was undergoing major social and economic changes aimed at forging a political as well as a cultural identity for the United States. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how Nathaniel Hawthorne perceived these changes. We examine the role and the impact of the nineteenth-century public discourses (those on childhood education, philanthropy, religion, and economics) not only on the individual, but also on the general functioning of society. These discourses were indeed central to the construction of the social structures organizing public and private life. What did public and private space represent in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time? To what extent were these two spheres related to each other? What were the role and the place of the individual in American society? What was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s attitude toward this new social situation? Did it coincide with his ideal vision of society? All these questions are dealt with in the light of the four novels published by the author: The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (1860). Due to their brevity, his tales and sketches have not been used
28
Santos, Thiago Oliveira. "The style of our age: estudo sobre três romances americanos contemporâneos." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7245.
Full textAbstract:
Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-05-03T11:12:17Z
No. of bitstreams: 2
Tese - Thiago Oliveira Santos - 2017.pdf: 1704337 bytes, checksum: 5239119ebfae88548d735ca15b9a10a0 (MD5)
license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5)Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-05-03T11:58:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Thiago Oliveira Santos - 2017.pdf: 1704337 bytes, checksum: 5239119ebfae88548d735ca15b9a10a0 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5)
Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-03T11:58:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Thiago Oliveira Santos - 2017.pdf: 1704337 bytes, checksum: 5239119ebfae88548d735ca15b9a10a0 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-24
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES
This doctoral dissertation is a comparative study of three main contemporary authors: Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth, through the reading of three main novels written by them, respectively, Mason & Dixon; Blood Meridian and American Pastoral in this order here analyzed. The main objective of the research and its writing is an attempt to prove a historiographical connection as well as of themes and of style among these three novels, in their effort to reinterpret the American History in a strongly ironic way. This has been characterized by Harold Bloom (also in a ironical way, it seems) as “the style of our age”, among other reasons because the three writers as well as their three novels are focused on grasping different periods of the United States History and on deconstructing the main basis of American myths, even if through different and individualized narrative styles. The most important of these myths is the one that, since the Colonial Period, and based in the belief that being White, Protestant and of Anglo-Saxon origin would make the new man to be born in the New Continent a New Adam, and his nation, America, a new and exemplar Paradise on Earth. Mason & Dixon, Blood Meridian and American Pastoral show, each one in his own way, how this myth resulted in failure. In order to achieve this we have chosen three main myths as the basis for this research: The Myth of the American Eden (from the European imaginary Colonial Paradise); The Myth of the American Adam (from the concept of the new man, inhabitant of that Paradise; The Myth of the Manifest Destiny (the Messianic idea of a possible Universal Paradise). In order to achieve this, in the first chapter, dealing with Mason & Dixon, we will analyze the context of the Eighteenth Century and the beginning of the American Nation. In the second chapter, dealing with Blood Meridian, we will analyze the context of the Nineteenth Century, when the territorial expansion during the Great March to the West took place. In third and last chapter, dealing with American Pastoral, the context of the Twentieth Century, specifically the period from the end of World War II to the 1990s, that is, from the American Golden Age of prosperity to the economic and social crisis during and after the Vietnam War. Finally, we will try to analyze the logic of the irony shared by the three authors who, in their three novels, historically summarize the failure of the formation of the ideal nation based on its three main myths and its continual recurrence to different types of violence
Esta tese é uma leitura comparativa de três autores contemporâneos de destaque na ficção norte-americana: Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy e Philip Roth, a partir de três romances escritos por eles: Mason & Dixon; Blood Meridian e American Pastoral, respectivamente, nesta ordem aqui analisados. O objetivo principal da pesquisa e escrita da tese é uma tentativa de comprovar uma relação historiográfica mas também de temas e de estilo entre as três obras citadas, ao se empenharem em reinterpretar a História ame-ricana de modo fortemente irônico, que Harold Bloom (também ironicamente, parece) denominou como um exemplo do que seria the style of our age – o estilo de nossa época –, entre outras razões, por serem tanto os três escritores como seus três romances empe-nhados em abordar diferentes períodos da História dos Estados Unidos e a desconstruir as principais bases dos mitos americanos, mesmo se através de estilos narrativos indivi-duais díspares, principalmente aquele através do qual, desde a colonização e com base na crença de que ser branco, protestante e de origem anglo-saxônica tornaria o novo homem a nascer no novo continente, um novo Adão, e sua pátria, a América, um novo e exemplar Paraíso. Mason & Dixon, Blood Meridian e American Pastoral mostram, cada um a seu modo, como esse mito resultou em fracasso. Para tanto, baseamos nossa pesquisa em três mitos principais: 1. Mito do Éden americano (originado do imaginário europeu sobre o Paraíso colonial); 2. Mito do Adão americano (o conceito do homem novo, habitante do Paraíso); 3. Mito do Manifest Destiny (a ideia messiânica para um Paraíso universal). Para conseguir isso, no primeiro capítulo, abordaremos, em Mason & Dixon, o contexto do século XVIII e formação da nação americana; no segundo capítulo, em Blood Meridian, o contexto do século XIX, durante o qual a expansão do território americano durante a Campanha para o Oeste aconteceu; no terceiro e último capítulo, em American Pastoral, o contexto do século XX, especificamente do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial até a década de 90, isto é, da era de ouro do desenvolvimento dos EUA até as crises políticas e econômicas durante e depois da Guerra do Vietnã. Por fim, pretendemos analisar a lógica da ironia comum aos três autores que, em seus três livros, historicamente resumem o fracasso da formação da nação ideal fundamentada em seus três mitos principais e por sua contínua recorrência a diferentes tipos de violência.
29
Jones, James Carl. "Fulfilling the national destiny at all costs : manifest destiny, Lebensraum, and the quest for space /." 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421612521&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=10361&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full text
30
Lin, Eanne Yeanne, and 林盈吟. "Reexamining Walt Whitman''s Views on Manifest Destiny." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rs59t4.
Full textAbstract:
碩士國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
106
“Manifest Destiny” is an American philosophy which emphasizes that America is predestined to expand and occupy the whole continent. Manifest destiny is such an interesting ideology because there is no legal documentation that obliges Americans to comply to this idea nor think this way. But fascinatingly, when one looks back to the history of America, this ideology of Manifest Destiny is written all over it. This thesis seeks to establish the fact that the idea of Manifest Destiny has been deeply embedded in American history. However, this thesis does not only aim to highlight the impressive contributions of Manifest Destiny in making the United States a great nation that we know today, but it also aims to emphasize the negative implications that it had inflicted over the years. Given the fact that the ideology of Manifest Destiny was a predominant belief especially during the 19th century, this thesis aspires to investigate the extent of its influence by exploring the effects of Manifest Destiny on America’s most important poet of the 19th century, Walt Whitman, by doing a textual analysis on some of his poems. It is known to many that Whitman is a nationalist and a believer of Manifest Destiny. Therefore, the extensive effects of the belief of Manifest Destiny had influenced Walt Whitman as it is highly evident in his poems. However, this thesis argues that Whitman is ambivalent towards Manifest Destiny as he has also recognized the negative consequences it came with.
31
Newland, Trevor. "Judge Holden's war dance : manifest destiny and evil in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11423.
Full textAbstract:
With an indisputably impressive collection of works to his name, Cormac McCarthy has
emerged (among critical and commercial literary circles) as one of America's finest authors.
Although each of his powerfully written works resonates with rich, disturbing imagery, Blood
Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West stands alone, perhaps, as his masterpiece. At the
center of this apocalyptic vision of the American West is Judge Holden, enigmatic albino giant,
pedophile, philosopher and ruthless murderer, and though McCarthy critics have presented
many fascinating and inventive interpretations of the judge, he remains, in many ways,
inexplicably baffling. Nevertheless, in this thesis I present yet another analysis of Holden,
unique in that it juxtaposes the influence of mid nineteenth century manifest destiny ideology
against his disconcerting philosophy of war. I examine, in depth, Holden's desire to control his
own fate by shattering (what he perceives to be) the chains of predestiny as well his ambition to
"illuminate" Glanton's riders as to their significance as warriors in the history of human conduct.
I also investigate the manner in which these ruthless outriders consistently validate Holden's
beliefs through their savage butchery and inane ignorance, illustrating the defining factors that
separate the typical mercenary scalp hunter from the judge. In order to express these differences
convincingly, however, it is necessary that I present my analysis within a relevant historical
framework; thus, I begin this thesis with a brief overview of the roots of manifest destiny and the
manner in which it captured the American imagination during this period.
32
Solomon, Michael. "Saving the "slaves of kings and priests" the United States, manifest destiny, and the rhetoric of anti-Catholicism /." 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,112077.
Full text
33
Olsson, Mark. "“In the Name of Common Sense, Had Not Gentlemen Got Enough?” The Moral and Constitutional Objections to Manifest Destiny, 1803-1848." Thesis, 2013. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977216/1/Olsson_MA_S2013%2D1.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States extended its territory westward from the original border along the Mississippi River until it possessed all the territory north of the Rio Grande and south of 49° N, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The majority of Americans approved of this expansion, which came to be termed Manifest Destiny. Concerning those American citizens who opposed Manifest Destiny, historians have constructed models that generally describe the dissent as motivated by economic self-interest, sectional friction, partisan politics, or by a lack of the technological capacity necessary to efficiently govern distant regions. These models are very useful, but do not paint a complete picture. In some cases, opposition to territorial expansion was based on a conviction that the actions being taken violated the Constitution of the United States. For some, their dissent was rooted in a sense of morality and the belief that the United States was acting in a manner dangerous to republican ideals, and a stain on the nation’s character and reputation. This thesis will examine this form of opposition as it pertains to the Louisiana Purchase, the seizing of West Florida, the War of 1812, the annexation of Oregon and Texas, and the Mexican- American War. It will present the voices of those who denied that Americans had a constitutional or moral right to grasp land held by others, not because it wasn’t in their best interests, but because they believed it was fundamentally unjust.
34
Polívka, Zdeněk. "Mezi Nostalgií a Pragmatismem: 'Hraniční Trilogie' Cormaca McCarthyho." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-404428.
Full textAbstract:
THESIS ABSTRACT This thesis deals with the problematics and the role of American frontier and American West in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy consisting of All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1999). The reading proper focuses mainly on the second novel of the trilogy, making frequent references to both the other two volumes of the trilogy and to Blood Meridian (1985), a novel directly preceding the trilogy itself. The main goal of the thesis is to demonstrate that the trilogy not only critically engages with the American nationalist ideology represented by a nostalgically conceptualized myths of the American frontier, but that it also offers its own alternative vision of the concept of the frontier and of American national identity. The thesis further claims that McCarthy's critical approach to the mythical representations of the American history bears strong resemblance to the philosophy of American pragmatism as defined by a French philosopher Giles Deleuze in his works dedicated to American thinking and culture. In his pragmatic view of American identity the frontier ceases to function in its traditional, nationalistic sense as a line of separation that divides the social and political space into binary categories, and instead it is understood as an open and...
35
Berlinguette-Auger, Claude. ""Vers l'infini et plus loin encore!" : la culture populaire comme agent promoteur du programme spatial américain." Mémoire, 2013. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5722/1/M13108.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
Ce mémoire a pour objectif de vérifier si la culture populaire, plus particulièrement le cinéma, nous permet de mieux comprendre la décision de lancer et de maintenir le programme spatial américain. Plus précisément, ce mémoire s'interroge sur le lien pouvant exister entre les représentations identitaires véhiculées dans les films analysés et celles mises de l'avant par les dirigeants américains afin de justifier cette décision coûteuse, au sens monétaire et politique. L'argument central affirme qu'un parallèle peut être établi entre le mythe de la frontière et la destinée manifeste, perceptibles dans le cinéma précédant l'alunissage, et les discours des dirigeants américains entre 1961 et 1969. Autrement dit, nous jugerons que la mise en place réussie d'un processus d'interpellation a permis à la population de se reconnaître dans les discours institutionnalisés, et a pu faciliter l'acceptation de la décision comme conforme à ce qu'elle était et ce qu'elle devait faire. L'analyse se fait donc en deux temps. La première partie vise à faire une analyse discursive de trois films de science-fiction, sortis entre 1950 et 1969 et pouvant donc avoir fourni des arguments pour le lancement et le maintien du programme spatial américain. Nous nous chargerons donc d'étudier les dialogues, les images, les sons et les symboles présentés dans Destination Moon (1950), Forbidden Planet (1956) et 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968), de manière à déterminer si les mythes de la frontière et de la destinée manifeste sont représentés dans le film et s'ils contribuent à fournir une image positive du programme spatial. La deuxième étape sera de vérifier si ces représentations identitaires ont su trouver écho chez les dirigeants américains cherchant à justifier le programme spatial américain. Nous procéderons donc à l'analyse de discours donnés par Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon et par certains administrateurs de la NASA. Nous concluons, sur la base de nos analyses, que la rhétorique romantique hollywoodienne a été reprise par les dirigeants américains, possiblement dans une optique de mieux vendre le projet à la société américaine. En usant d'arguments similaires à ceux présentés dans la culture populaire, les dirigeants sont parvenus à mettre en place un processus d'interpellation réussi, rendant incidemment le programme spatial plus attrayant aux yeux de la population.
______________________________________________________________________________
MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : États-Unis, programme spatial, culture populaire, mythe de la frontière, destinée manifeste