Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
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Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
By (Author) Paul Frymer
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
10th July 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Central / national / federal government
History of the Americas
973.2
Physical Properties
Hardback
312
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
Description
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
Reviews
"Winner of the 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association"
"Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Groundbreaking. . . . The books central contribution is to show how the adaptations of American institutions intersected with Americas racial orders.. . . . It will be essential reading for scholars and students, graduate and undergraduate, of APD, American politics, and of the legacies and contemporary practices of settler colonialism in other countries."---David Bateman, Journal of Politics
"Paul Frymer has written one of the best available accounts of the United States long and troubled history as a white settler nation. For anyone wanting to know why that particular form of nationalism continues to resonate so forcefully today, Building an American Empire should be required reading."---Eliga Gould, Diplomatic History
"Building an American Empire is, in short, a terrific bookimportant, thoughtful, provocative, and seminal."---Todd Estes, American Political Thought
"Paul Frymers excellent new book interrogates our most enduring myththe Taming of the Westand in its place delivers a rich analysis of how U.S. leaders decided which territories and peoples would be included in the American civilizational project. His account puts original insights about space and race . . . at the center of our national story."---Thomas Ogorzalek, Political Science Quarterly
"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
Author Bio
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).
