Building an American Empire : : The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion / / Paul Frymer.
How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 3 halftones. 5 line illus. 19 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Boundaries and Movement
- Chapter 3. "Advancing Compactly as We Multiply"
- Chapter 4. Homesteading and Manufacturing Whiteness
- Chapter 5. The Limits of Manifest Destiny
- Chapter 6. A Second Removal?
- Chapter 7. America's Settler Empire at the End of the Frontier
- Index