Building an American empire : the era of territorial and political expansion / Paul Frymer.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2017.

xiii, 295 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover image: Map of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, 1892. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

Published by Princeton University Press.

First paperback printing, 2019.

This book has been composed in Miller.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

Introduction -- Boundaries and Movement -- “Advancing Compactly as We Multiply” -- Homesteading and Manufacturing Whiteness -- The Limits of Manifest Destiny -- A Second Removal? The Rise and Defeat of Black Colonization -- America's Settler Empire at the End of the Frontier.