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Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion

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By Paul Frymer

Published March 30, 2017

Westward expansion of the United States is conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and luck. However, as Professor of politics Paul Frymer explains in Building an American Empire (Princeton University Press), the federal government played a crucial role in its success, while establishing America as a white settler nation.

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