{"product_id":"territories-of-empire-us-writing-from-the-louisiana-purchase-to-mexican-independence-9780190931339","title":"Territories of Empire: U.S. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence","description":"In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery expansion, treaty diplomacy, immigration and settlement, and the addition of new states on the\u003cbr\u003eborder. Never the exclusive top-down product of any single strategic plan, empire building relied rather on a hazy, ever-shifting boundary between state and non-state action. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eTerritories of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e examines the border writings of U.S. explorers, politicians, travelers, novelists, merchants, newspapermen, and other eye-witnesses to the rapid expansion of the United States in the aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase. It traces how different authors and texts imagined the\u003cbr\u003erelations between nation-state and border and reveals how continental ambitions were achieved through the uneven and unpredictable process of territorialization. Andy Doolen looks to writings as dissimilar as Kentucky newspaper accounts of the Aaron Burr conspiracy, the explorer Zebulon Pike's 1810\u003cbr\u003eaccount of making peace with the Santee Sioux before becoming terribly lost near the upper Rio Grande, and Timothy Flint's 1826 novel about a young New Englander who fights in the Mexican independence struggle in showing how national sentiments were galvanized in support of greater territorial and\u003cbr\u003ecommercial growth. To this end, Doolen makes clear how both private citizens and government officials collectively authored the spatial logic of a continental republic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining textual analysis with theories of transnationalism and empire, \u003cem\u003e Territories of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the development of a continental imaginary highly attuned to the objectives of U.S. imperialism, while often betraying an unsettling awareness of resistance and diversity beyond the border.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Doolen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190931339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndy Doolen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Kentucky and the author of \u003cem\u003eFugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929229443187,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_38a803f2-38a4-4595-b2e1-197df3f14350.jpg?v=1647612119","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/territories-of-empire-us-writing-from-the-louisiana-purchase-to-mexican-independence-9780190931339","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}