Building an American Empire - The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion

Zusatztext " Building an American Empire is a valuable contribution to the conversation on the rise of the American national state." ---William H. Bergmann, American Historical Review Informationen zum Autor Paul Frymer is professor of politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America and Black and Blue: African Americans! the Labor Movement! and the Decline of the Democratic Party (both Princeton). Klappentext 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 con Zusammenfassung 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 con

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• Authors: Paul Frymer, Frymer Paul
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2017
• EAN: 9780691166056
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16605-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American; Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Regional & national history, Nationalism, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Land Rights, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Central / national / federal government, Social discrimination and social justice