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03489aam a2200421 i 4500 001 3D6B2C1A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 170208s2017 njuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016047471 020 $a 0691166056 020 $a 9780691166056 035 $a (OCoLC)965805033 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usp-- $a n-usp-- 050 00 $a E179.5 F79 2017 100 1 $a Frymer, Paul, $e author. 245 10 $a Building an American empire : $b the era of territorial and political expansion / $c Paul Frymer. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 292 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Princeton studies in American politics: historical, international, and comparative perspectives 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 651 0 $a United States $x Political aspects. $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Land settlement $z United States $x Historiography. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z United States $x Historiography. 650 0 $a Frontier thesis. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x Historiography. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American $x Historiography. 651 0 $a United States $x Historical geography. 650 0 $a Imperialism $v Case studies. 830 0 $a Princeton studies in American politics. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012553.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403020108.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D6B2C1A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search