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MARC Record from Library of Congress

Record ID marc_loc_updates/v38.i11.records.utf8:16800913:1367
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01367cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2009502981
003 DLC
005 20100315134733.0
008 091201s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009502981
020 $a9781400078189 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE179.5$b.N84 2009
082 00 $a911/.73$222
100 1 $aNugent, Walter T. K.
245 10 $aHabits of empire :$ba history of American expansion /$cWalter Nugent.
250 $a1st Vintage Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2009.
300 $axvii, 387 p. :$bill., maps ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index.
505 0 $aTransappalachia, 1782 : first land, first good fortune -- Louisiana, 1803 : second good luck -- Canada, 1812-1814 : failed aggression northward -- Florida, 1810-1819 : southward aggression I -- Texas, 1811-1845 : overpopulating and conquering -- Oregon, 1818-1846 : fixing the Canadian border -- California and New Mexico, 1846-1848 : southward aggression II -- Populating the empire -- To Alaska and across the Pacific -- Around the Caribbean -- Postscript : The global empire.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory.
650 0 $aAggression (International law)$xHistory.