Sentence:  These public intellectuals sought to reassemble the old commitments to empire, freedom, and permanent peace, but in ways that fundamentally altered if not discarded <WSD>settlerism</WSD>. Promoting economic independence and republican freedom no longer provided the rationales for expansion or international power. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Group identification among settlers (as opposed to indigenous people or imported slaves), coupled with an ideology of  freedom and social participation that applies exclusively to members of that group.