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Imperial Transfers: Settler Colonialism, Overseas Empire, and the Progressive State - Katharine Bjork, Prairie Imperialist: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii + 340 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5100-5. - Marilyn Lake, Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 307 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-6749-7595-8.

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Katharine Bjork, Prairie Imperialist: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii + 340 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5100-5.
Marilyn Lake, Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 307 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-6749-7595-8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2019

Frank Schumacher
Frank Schumacher*
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University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CAN
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2019 , pp. 486 - 489
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1 An exception to this is Hixson, Walter L., American Settler Colonialism. A History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For a recent call to apply the concept more widely, see Jacobs, Margaret D., “Seeing Like a Settler Colonial State,” Modern American History 1 (2018): 257–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Williams, Walter L., “United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism” in Journal of American History 66:4 (Mar. 1980): 810–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar; for recent work, see Charbonneau, Oliver, “‘A New West in Mindanao’: Settler Fantasies on the U.S. Imperial Fringe,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 18:3 (2019): 1–20Google Scholar; McKenna, Rebecca Tinio, “Igorot Squatters and Indian Wards: Towards an Intra-imperial History of Land Dispossession,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 18:2 (2019): 221–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 For example, Rodgers, Daniel T., Atlantic Crossings. Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998)Google Scholar.