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The picky eagle : how democracy and xenophobia limited U.S. territorial expansion / Richard W. Maass

Author
Maass, Richard W.
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
xv, 296 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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Contents
The limits of U.S. territorial expansion -- Explaining annexation -- To the continent : European empires and U.S. annexation -- To the west : Native American lands and U.S. annexation -- To the north : Canada and U.S. annexation -- To the south : Mexico and U.S. annexation -- To the seas : islands and U.S. annexation -- The international implications of U.S. annexation.
Summary
"This book explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic political and normative consequences"--
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ISBN
9781501748752 hardcover
1501748750 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Steighton (Steve) A. Watts, Jr. Endowment
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