American Conquest

The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

Andrew A. Szarejko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2025 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-4381-9 (ISBN)

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The first war of America's existence as an independent state was fought against the Shawnee, the Miami, and other Ohio River Valley tribes in the Northwest Indian War of 1790–95. The war provides a window into how US conquest of the continent would proceed through the next century and comprise a central element of US foreign policy into the future. Szarejko examines why the United States first engaged in this war to secure its claim to the Old Northwest and how the reverberations of the war extend far beyond the process of settlement. In focusing on US strategy during the war—its reliance on military bases to project power and a nascent counterinsurgency doctrine—Szarejko expertly traces the patterns established by this conflict throughout American political history and demonstrates how that military victory continues to be legitimized today through local commemorations of the war. This innovative book argues forcefully against the conventional claim that early US foreign policy was isolationist, brings Indigenous politics more fully into the realm of international relations, and allows researchers in several scholarly fields to better understand the nature of American conquest.

Andrew A. Szarejko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wartburg College.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 halftone
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5036-4381-6 / 1503643816
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-4381-9 / 9781503643819
Zustand	Neuware