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  title info:
    title: Building an American empire
    sub title: the era of territorial and political expansion
  name:
    name part: Frymer, Paul
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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, while 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.
  note: Paul Frymer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Territorial expansion
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Land settlement
    geographic: United States
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Frontier and pioneer life
    geographic: United States
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Frontier thesis
  subject:
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Historical geography
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Ideologies
    topic: Nationalism
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Discrimination & Race Relations
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Government
    topic: National
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: North America
  classification: E179.5 .F79 2017
  classification: 973.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Princeton studies in American politics
  identifier: 9780691166056
  identifier: 0691166056
  identifier: 2016047471
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170208
    record change date: 20170926115334.0
    record identifier: in00003861338