American Conquest

Andrew A. Szarejko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wartburg College.

"This exciting, vital book places the frontier at the center of US foreign policy and forces us to rethink nineteenth-century American foreign relations. Szarejko shows how frontier politics influenced the emergence of the US as a great power in a way that continues to matter in the twenty-first century."—Eric Grynaviski, The George Washington University "For too long, scholars of international relations largely accepted Eurocentric visions of US foreign policy that relegated US–tribal relations to the realm of the 'domestic' and took claims of American 'isolationism' at face value—no longer. Szarejko expertly uses the history of the Northwest Indian War to explore how relations between the United States and Native American tribes shaped US foreign policy."—Richard Maass, Old Dominion University "Theoretically innovative and deeply researched, this book upends everything scholars think they know about early American foreign policy. As Szarejko shows, early US foreign policy was not averse to foreign conflict. While isolationism might have defined US relations with European powers, the US saw Native American tribes as a set of foreign nations, ones that had to be 'domesticated' through war and expansive settler networks."—Stacie Goddard, Wellesly College