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Expansionism
About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.
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01 Aug 2001
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TL;DR: Haefeli et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that our efforts to combine local and imperial perspectives and to distinguish between borderlands and frontiers may have added nothing more than a colorful new overcoat to the old [triumphalist] story of nation building.
Abstract: SCHOLARSHIP ON AMERICAN FRONTIERS, writes Evan Haefeli, "retains much of the narcissism of Frederick Jackson Turner's celebratory thesis." Our efforts to combine local and imperial perspectives and to distinguish between borderlands and frontiers, he fears, may have added nothing "more than a colorful new overcoat to the old [triumphalist] story of nation building." Even more accusingly, John Wunder and Pekka Hamdlainen condemn our "borderlands to borders" framework as "process history," shot through with the imperialist and ethnocentric weaknesses of Turner's thesis. Worse still, claim Wunder and Hamalainen, we muffle our historiographic allegiance to Turner. Yet, like Turner, we fail to recognize the agency of Indian peoples, causing us to oversimplify a "complex historical phenomenon" and "deny the unbroken past" that is supposedly fundamental to Indian peoples. We have no interest in turning this response into a refighting of battles over the ghost of Frederick Jackson Turner or a rehashing of skirmishes among historians of the American West over the advantages of "place" or "process" (which we think starts with a false dichotomy).1 As we admit in the article, we stand with (and on) Turner in the concern for periodizing European expansionism. Our emphasis on the often unexpected mixings that frontiers and borderlands produced, however, seems anything but "sanitized." Nor should our attempt to frame the history of colonialism in North America be seen as "celebratory." Its purpose was to explain how the process of conquest moved across North America from various directions and to analyze some of the forces that altered assorted expansionist designs. Still, were we to lay our historiographic cards on the table, we might also have acknowledged our indebtedness to Turner's vision of an American history that
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TL;DR: This paper identified turning points in the value of the yen during the 1920s to determine which factors were perceived by market participants as affecting Japan's probability of returning to the gold standard and concluded that changes of power between the Kenseikai and Seiyukai parties and worsening diplomatic relations with China were primarily responsible for turning points.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that one cannot begin constructing a set of "canonical" texts from which all law students should be exposed to, or what students studying constitutional law should be expected to read.
Abstract: All disciplines are constituted by their canonsthat series of "set texts" that comprises the core materials of any given academic area. As Jack Balkin and I have written elsewhere, debates about the canon are rife in many contemporary disciplines, most notably, perhaps (at least in terms of public attention), in English and American literature, but most certainly including legal studies. One can ask very generally what legal materials all law students should be exposed to, or one can ask the more limited question as to what students studying constitutional law should be expected to read. That is, what should constitute the canon of constitutional law? Even this way of putting the question may be too broad, though, for we argue that one cannot begin constructing a set of
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TL;DR: Santoni as discussed by the authors sheds new light on Mexican domestic history during the conflict through a comprehensive examination of the only Mexican political bloc that wanted war with the United States, led by Valentin Gomez Farias, who in 1846 took the name of "puros."
Abstract: The decades that followed independence from Spain in 1821 transformed Mexico from a strong, stable colony to a republic suffering from economic decline and political turmoil. This chaotic state hindered efforts of the young republic to meet the aggressive expansionism of the United States between 1845 and 1848. Santoni sheds new light on Mexican domestic history during the conflict--a much neglected subject--through a comprehensive examination of the only Mexican political bloc that wanted war with the United States. Led by Valentin Gomez Farias, this faction was the radical federalists, who in 1846 took the name of "puros." Santoni demonstrates the reasons for the failure of the "puros""'" attempts to reestablish federalism in Mexico, shape public opinion, develop a civic militia and forge alliances with senior army officers and opposing political groups. Santoni maintains that the economic, social, and political troubles of Mexico nullified the "puros""'" endeavors to direct armed resistance against the Americans.
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