American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homestead Acts, Mexican Americans, Transcendentalism

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

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American studies lecture 8 nov. 9 2015. Empire for liberty: manifest destiny, american exceptionalism, and the great. The phrase empire for liberty is a phrase that jefferson wrote to madison. Thomas jefferson 1780: we shall form to the american union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the british province of canada. Jefferson paid 15m dollars for the french louisiana territory. Jefferson to madison 1809: we should then have only to include the north. Many scholars note there is a paradox in the empire for liberty . An empire explores the idea of controlling an area of land and man in that land, while liberty deals with freedom. Its attitude against sovereign nations that got in the way of the idea of. Empires are created through war and violence, but are maintained through social and cultural institutions. Hegemony: (1) preponderant influence or authority over other. Domination (2): the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.