TY - BOOK AU - Frymer,Paul TI - Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion T2 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives SN - 9780691166056 PY - 2017///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - United States KW - Historiography KW - Frontier thesis KW - Imperialism KW - Case studies KW - 19th century KW - Land settlement KW - National characteristics, American KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism KW - bisacsh KW - Abraham Lincoln KW - African slavery KW - American empire KW - American expansion KW - American frontier KW - Cuba KW - Dominican Republic KW - Emancipation Proclamation KW - Frederick Jackson Turner KW - French settlers KW - Hawai'i KW - Homestead Act KW - Indian Removal Act KW - Latin America KW - Louisiana Purchase KW - Louisiana KW - Mexico KW - Mississippi River KW - Mississippi KW - Native Americans KW - New Mexico KW - Oklahoma KW - Orleans Territory KW - Theodore Roosevelt KW - Woodrow Wilson KW - black colonization KW - boundary lines KW - empire KW - federal land policies KW - foreign policy KW - free blacks KW - homesteading KW - judges KW - land incorporation KW - land policies KW - land KW - manifest destiny KW - political development KW - population control KW - population movements KW - preemption KW - public domain KW - race KW - settlement policies KW - settlement KW - settler rights KW - slavery KW - sovereignty KW - state formation KW - territorial expansion KW - the frontier KW - westward expansion KW - white settler nation KW - whiteness N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Boundaries and Movement --; Chapter 3. "Advancing Compactly as We Multiply" --; Chapter 4. Homesteading and Manufacturing Whiteness --; Chapter 5. The Limits of Manifest Destiny --; Chapter 6. A Second Removal? --; Chapter 7. America's Settler Empire at the End of the Frontier --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885350?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400885350 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400885350.jpg ER -