(...) imperial expansion of... «A Short History of Progress»

(...) imperial expansion of the United States across her continent in the nineteenth century.

American national mythology sees this as “pioneering” and “settlement,” but the conquest and dispossession of one Indian people after another, including organized native states such as the Cherokee and Iroquois, was clearly imperial, a forerunner in deed if not in name of Germany’s Lebensraum.

(...) There is no clearer fact in American history than the fact of conquest. In North America, just as in South America … Europeans invaded a land fully occupied by natives.