Building an American Empire The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion |
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| Author:
| Frymer, Paul |
| Series title: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-19156-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2019 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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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-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone c
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-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone c