{"product_id":"building-an-american-empire-the-era-of-territorial-and-political-expansion-9780691191560","title":"Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWestward 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding an American Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding an American Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Frymer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691191560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Frymer\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40424431779955,"sku":"9.78069E+12","price":44.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5290ecfc-8ad8-471d-b996-548333d4ce8e.jpg?v=1662558324","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/building-an-american-empire-the-era-of-territorial-and-political-expansion-9780691191560","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}