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Senator Benton and the People : Master Race Democracy on the Early American Frontier /
Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 / Honor and Country: Bloody Island
- 2 / The Transformation of Frontier Missouri: Frontiers of Inclusion, Frontiers of Exclusion
- 3 / The Triumph of Master Race Democracy: The Racialization of American Politics
- 4 / "The Land Belongs to the People": Public Lands, States' Rights, and the "Indian Problem"
- 5 / Old Bullion and the Borderlands: Mexican Dollars
- 6 / The Destiny of the Races: The Free Soil Schism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index