Inadvertent Expansion Roger L. Nichols Bernadine Hernandez brings to light

Bernadine Hernandez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history

and for us outsiders to understand them with accuracy and compassion

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Inadvertent Expansion Roger L. Nichols Bernadine Hernandez brings to lightIn Inadvertent Expansion, Nicholas D. Anderson investigates a surprisingly common yet overlooked phenomenon in the history of great power politics: territorial expansion that was neither intended nor initially authorized by state leaders. Territorial expansion is typically understood as a centrally driven and often strategic activity. But as Anderson shows, nearly a quarter of great power coercive territorial acquisitions since the nineteenth century