Habits of empire: a history of American expansion

Transappalachia, 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.