Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country

by Lori J. Daggar

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It presents American empire-building as a negotiated phenomenon that was built upon the foundations of earlier Atlantic empires, and it shows how U.S. territorial and economic development went hand-in-hand. Lori. J. Daggar explores how Native authority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512823295
• ISBN13: 9781512823295
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 6.1"