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Trump, Greenland and the longer tale of American real estate

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Trump, Greenland and the longer tale of American real estate

US President Donald Trump surprised many with talk of his desire to buy Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

Rear Vision puts this idea into the larger historical context of American territorial acquisition, which began when they kicked the British out at the end of the eighteenth century.

At the time, the European colonial powers—Britain, Spain and France—still held great slabs of what would become the United States.

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Government and Politics, Colonialism, World Politics
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