The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire - Couverture rigide

Mills, Brandon

 
9780812252507: The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0812252500 ISBN 13 : 9780812252507
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

Synopsis

According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in the nineteenth-century United States. But for Brandon Mills, the ACS was part of a much wider pattern of national and international expansion. Similar efforts on the part of the young nation to create, in Thomas Jefferson's words, an "empire of liberty," spanned Native removal, the annexation of Texas and California, filibustering campaigns in Latin America, and American missionary efforts in Hawaii, as well as the founding of Liberia in 1821. Mills contends that these diverse currents of U.S. expansionism were ideologically linked and together comprised a capacious colonization movement that both reflected and shaped a wide range of debates over race, settlement, citizenship, and empire in the early republic.

The World Colonization Made chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement as a political force within the United States--from its roots in the crises of the Revolutionary era, to its peak with the creation of the ACS, to its ultimate decline with emancipation and the Civil War. The book interrogates broader issues of U.S. expansion, including the progression of federal Indian policy, the foundations and effects of the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, and the growth of U.S. commercial and military power throughout the Western hemisphere. By contextualizing the colonization movement in this way, Mills shows how it enabled Americans to envision a world of self-governing republics that harmonized with racial politics at home.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brandon Mills teaches in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Denver.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812252500
ISBN 13 
9780812252507
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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