| Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion Subjects: 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 Americ; How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation 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). |