Marxist/socioeconomic interpretation of Manifest Destiny?

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Let me preface this by saying that I have used and enjoyed the resources provided by this forum for a few years and appreciate the body of contributions from its members.

Now to brass tacks, I am looking for a substantial secondary source (preferably academic article or other well-cited publication) which provides, as the title states, a primarily materialist or economic analysis of the conditions behind American Manifest Destiny and/or Western expansionism.

In my searches of archives like JSTOR I have come across works replete with political, ideological and military evaluations of its justifications, but economic basis is mostly reduced to the allure of territory and resources. I need something a little more significant for my studies.

Zinn's chapter "We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God" among others was a good jumping off point, but would prefer recommendations which are more "scholarly."

Thanks in advance comrades.

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Let me preface this by saying that I have used and enjoyed the resources provided by this forum for a few years and appreciate the body of contributions from its members.

Now to brass tacks, I am looking for a substantial secondary source (preferably academic article or other well-cited publication) which provides, as the title states, a primarily materialist or economic analysis of the conditions behind American Manifest Destiny and/or Western expansionism.

In my searches of archives like JSTOR I have come across works replete with political, ideological and military evaluations of its justifications, but economic basis is mostly reduced to the allure of territory and resources. I need something a little more significant for my studies.

Zinn's chapter "We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God" among others was a good jumping off point, but would prefer recommendations which are more "scholarly."

Thanks in advance comrades.
Is the Zinn book cited. You might want to look there....

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Unfortunately the version I am using is not, there is a substantial amount of quotes from primary sources, mostly Congressional speeches and accounts of soldiers from the Mexican-American War, of which I have tracked down and read a few.

I should have mentioned that I also consulted Beard's The Rise of American Civilization as well, but would appreciate more recent scholarship.

My primary need is twofold: both a strengthening of my own understanding of American history and as part of a series of secondary source critique for a graduate course.