Building an American empire : the era of territorial and political expansion /
"Westward 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-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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Colección: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.