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United States -- Territorial expansion --- Imperialism

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Imperialism --- History. --- United States --- Foreign relations. --- Territorial expansion. --- Imperialism - History --- United States - Foreign relations --- United States - Territorial expansion

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This is a sweeping new interpretation of the national experience, reconceiving key political events from the Revolution to the New Deal. Rana begins by emphasizing that the national founding was first and foremost an experiment in settler colonization. For American settlers, internal self-government involved a unique vision of freedom, which combined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this independence was based on ideas of extensive land ownership which helped to sustain both territorial conquest and the subordination of slaves and native peoples. At the close of the nineteenth century, emerging social movements struggled to liberate the potential of self-rule from these oppressive and exclusionary features. These efforts ultimately collapsed, in large part because white settlers failed to conceive of liberty as a truly universal aspiration. The consequence was the rise of new modes of political authority that presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments. Rana contends that the challenge for today’s reformers is to recover a robust notion of independence and participation from the settler experience while finally making it universal.

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Beschavingsgrens (Amerikaanse geschiedenis) --- Frontier (These van Frederick Jackson Turner) --- Frontier (Thèse de Frederick Jackson Turner) --- Frontier hypothesis --- Frontier thesis --- Kolonisatiegrens (Amerikaanse geschiedenis) --- Turner hypothesis --- Turner's frontier hypothesis --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Land use, Rural --- United States --- West (U.S.) --- Territorial expansion --- Economic conditions --- Land use [Rural ] --- Frontier and pioneer life - United States --- Land use, Rural - United States --- United States - Territorial expansion --- West (U.S.) - Economic conditions

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How did the acquisition of overseas colonies affect the development of the American state? How did the constitutional system shape the expansion and governance of American empire? American Imperialism and the State offers a new perspective on these questions by recasting American imperial governance as an episode of state building. Colin D. Moore argues that the empire was decisively shaped by the efforts of colonial state officials to achieve greater autonomy in the face of congressional obstruction, public indifference and limitations on administrative capacity. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book focuses principally upon four cases of imperial governance - Hawai'i, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic and Haiti - to highlight the essential tension between American mass democracy and imperial expansion.

United States --- Imperialism --- Colonies --- Nation-building --- Democracy --- Constitutional history --- Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) --- State-building --- Political development --- Foreign relations --- Territorial expansion. --- History. --- Colonial question. --- Politics and government --- United States - Foreign relations - 1865-1921 --- United States - Territorial expansion --- Imperialism - History --- Colonies - History --- Nation-building - United States - History --- Democracy - United States - History --- Constitutional history - United States --- United States - Colonial question --- United States - Politics and government - 1865-1933