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Building an American Empire - The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion (Paperback)
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Building an American Empire - The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
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How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to
promote the formation of a white settler nation 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 in its success. This book examines the politics of
American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of
population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal,
advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation
of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how
a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal
land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by
engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the
movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized
populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas
of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively
restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence,
international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines
how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial
vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of
white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated
lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close
attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further
expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black
colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the
lasting and profound significance government settlement policies
had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly
white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands
that could not be so racially engineered.
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