Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion Maass Richard W.
Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion Maass Richard W. The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's…
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Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion Maass Richard W.
The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest.
US presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. Maass argues that US ambitions were selective from the start.By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of US leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. These leaders were particularly sensitive to