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The Picky Eagle - How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion (Hardcover)
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The Picky Eagle - How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion (Hardcover)
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The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing
territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both
political and normative. It describes how the U.S. rejection of
further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for
twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to
conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from
territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass
argues that U.S. ambitions were selective from the start. By
presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the
decision-making of U.S. leaders facing opportunities to pursue
annexation between 1775 and 1898. U.S. presidents, secretaries, and
congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new
territories would affect their domestic political influence and
their goals for their country. These leaders were particularly
sensitive to annexation's domestic costs where xenophobia
interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather than grant
political representation to a large alien population or subject it
to a long-term imperial regime, they regularly avoided both of
these perceived bad options by rejecting annexation. As a result,
U.S. leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for
territorial expansion, and they renounced the practice entirely
once no desirable targets remained. In addition to offering an
updated history of the foundations of U.S. territorial expansion,
The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of
great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of
U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
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