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Howe, again, points out that the most obvious \u201cimperial\u201d project in US history is the one we take most for granted, the conquest of the American continent: \u201cit is the internal expansion of the continental USA, across the intervening hundred years, which evokes the most direct parallels with empire-building elsewhere. Exterminatory war, \u2018freelance\u2019 expansionism by adventurers, farmers, prospectors, and religious fanatics, ecological devastation, and drawing up of oft-broken treaties and protectorates, experiments in Indirect Rule and drives for cultural assimilation \u2013 all featured at one time or another, just as they did in British, French, or Russian imperialisms.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Howe, again, points out that the most obvious \u201cimperial\u201d project in US history is the one we take most for granted, the conquest of the American continent: \u201cit is the internal expansion of the continental USA, across the intervening hundred years, which evokes the most direct parallels with empire-building elsewhere. Exterminatory war, \u2018freelance\u2019 expansionism by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n