Building an American Empire : The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion /

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"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...

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Main Author: Frymer, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA > Government
Siedlung
Bevölkerungspolitik
National characteristics, American > Historiography.
Land settlement > Historiography.
Frontier thesis.
Frontier and pioneer life > Historiography.
Historical geography.
Historiography.
Imperialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Nationalism & Patriotism.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Imperialisme > Études de cas.
Hypothese de Turner.
Colonisation interieure > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Imperialism > Case studies.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
Land settlement > United States > Historiography.
United States.
West United States.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Aspect politique.
United States > Historical geography.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
United States > Territorial expansion > Political aspects.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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