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The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard Maass argues that US ambitions were selective from the start.His book is animated by twenty-three case studies, examining the decision-making of U.S. leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. U.S. presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. They were particularly sensitive to annexation's domestic costs where xenophobia interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather than grant political representation to a large alien population or subject it to a long-term imperial regime, they regularly avoided both of these perceived bad options by rejecting annexation. As a result, U.S. leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for territorial expansion, and they renounced the practice entirely once no desirable targets remained.In addition to offering an updated history of the foundations of US territorial expansion, The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of US foreign policy and international relations.

History of North America --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- United States --- United States of America --- Democracy --- Xenophobia --- History. --- Political aspects --- Territorial expansion --- International Relations, Diplomatic History, US History, US Foreign Policy, International Security.

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Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city’s physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has tracked the city’s revival on a weekly basis. Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, plus a new introduction reflecting on the stunning changes the city has undergone. A fearless crusader who is also a seasoned reporter, Saffron ranges beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism to explore how big money and politics intersect with design, profoundly shaping our everyday experience of city life. Even as she celebrates Philadelphia’s resurgence, she considers how it finds itself grappling with the problems of success: gentrification, poverty, privatization, and the unequal distribution of public services. What emerges in these 80 pieces is a remarkable narrative of a remarkable time. The proverbial first draft of history, these columns tell the story of how a great city shape-shifted before our very eyes.

Architecture and society --- History --- 21st century, Next Detroit, Philadelphia Inquirer, gentrification, poverty, privatization, unequal distribution, Art, Music, Architecture, History: US, Urban Studies, American Studies, General Interest, Regional, Rebuilding, Equitable City, Success, Mega-Projects, Becoming Philadelphia.

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Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city’s physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has tracked the city’s revival on a weekly basis. Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, plus a new introduction reflecting on the stunning changes the city has undergone. A fearless crusader who is also a seasoned reporter, Saffron ranges beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism to explore how big money and politics intersect with design, profoundly shaping our everyday experience of city life. Even as she celebrates Philadelphia’s resurgence, she considers how it finds itself grappling with the problems of success: gentrification, poverty, privatization, and the unequal distribution of public services. What emerges in these 80 pieces is a remarkable narrative of a remarkable time. The proverbial first draft of history, these columns tell the story of how a great city shape-shifted before our very eyes.

Environmental planning --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- urban renewal --- Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] --- Architecture and society --- History --- 21st century, Next Detroit, Philadelphia Inquirer, gentrification, poverty, privatization, unequal distribution, Art, Music, Architecture, History: US, Urban Studies, American Studies, General Interest, Regional, Rebuilding, Equitable City, Success, Mega-Projects, Becoming Philadelphia.

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In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel church communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Radicalism --- Urban renewal --- Hispanic Americans --- Church buildings --- Protest camps --- Church and social problems --- Christianity and politics --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Social aspects --- Political activity --- Secular use --- barrio, Mexican American history, Mexican American, Latino, activism, civil rights, radical politics, religion, Latino faith, Mexican American Youth Organization, Young Lords, immigrant rights, advocacy, community organizing, Houston, Politics, Latina, Latinx, Chicano, Chicana, Chicanx, Church, Texas, History, US History, American History, American Studies.

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When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because of Congress's repeated failure to exercise its legislative powers to rein in presidents, many have proclaimed its irrelevance in military matters. After the Rubicon challenges this conventional wisdom by illuminating the diverse ways in which legislators influence the conduct of military affairs. Douglas L. Kriner reveals that even in politically sensitive wartime environments, individual members of Congress frequently propose legislation, hold investigative hearings, and engage in national policy debates in the public sphere. These actions influence the president's strategic decisions as he weighs the political costs of pursuing his preferred military course. Marshalling a wealth of quantitative and historical evidence, Kriner expertly demonstrates the full extent to which Congress materially shapes the initiation, scope, and duration of major military actions and sheds new light on the timely issue of interbranch relations.

Executive-legislative relations --- Politics and war --- Executive power --- United States. --- Powers and duties --- United States --- Military policy --- History, Military --- United States. Congress --- History [Military ] --- Presidents --- War --- War and politics --- Congressional-executive relations --- Congressional-presidential relations --- Executive-congressional relations --- Legislative-executive relationships --- Presidential-congressional relations --- Separation of powers --- Powers --- Political aspects --- Powers and duties. --- Military policy. --- History, Military. --- Executive-legislative relations - United States --- Politics and war - United States --- Executive power - United States --- United States - Military policy --- United States - History, Military --- united states politics, war, warfare, social sciences, history, us presidents, commander in chief, congress, troops, american military, legislative powers, conventional wisdom, wartime environments, international relations, diplomacy, national policy debates, historical evidence, investigative hearings, strategic decisions, public sphere, executive power, marines, legislators.