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Frymer, Paul, author.

Title Building an American empire [electronic resource] : the era of territorial and political expansion / Paul Frymer.

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Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2017.

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Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xiii, 295 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 25 cm.
Series	Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives.
	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note	Published by Princeton University Press.
	First paperback printing, 2019.
	This book has been composed in Miller.
	Printed on acid-free paper.
	Printed in the United States of America.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Boundaries and Movement -- "Advancing Compactly as We Multiply" -- Homesteading and Manufacturing Whiteness -- The Limits of Manifest Destiny -- A Second Removal? The Rise and Defeat of Black Colonization -- America's Settler Empire at the End of the Frontier.
Credits	Cover image: Map of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, 1892. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Reproduction	Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Subject	United States -- Territorial expansion -- Political aspects.
	Land settlement -- United States -- Historiography.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography.
	Frontier thesis.
	West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
	National characteristics, American -- Historiography.
	United States -- Historical geography.
	Imperialism -- Case studies.
	Bisac: Political Science -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
	Social Science -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	Political Science -- Government -- National.
	History -- United States -- 19th Century.
	History -- North America.
	European 4 : -- 1400-1800.
	Political Science.
Added Author	Ira Katznelson, Series editor.
	Eric Schickler, Series editor.
	Martin Shefter, Series editor.
	Theda Skocpol, Series editor.
	American Council of Learned Societies.
In:	ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN	9780691191560 Paperback
	9780691166056 hardback
	9781400885350
Standard No.	2027/heb34133 hdl