The Dig: Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer

We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselves about who we are as a country and how we got here. Dan’s guest is Paul Frymer, a professor of politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In his recent book, <i>Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion</i>, he provides a close study of the empire America built in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century, a project of geographic expansion facilitated and also limited by the demands of racial engineering. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out <i>The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West</i> by Mark A. Lause <a href="http://versobooks.com/books/2592-the-great-cowboy-strike" rel="nofollow">versobooks.com/books/2592-the-great-cowboy-strike</a>. And from University of California Press, <i>Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World </i>by Isa Blumi <a href="http://ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520296145!" rel="nofollow">ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520296145!</a><p></p><div></div>