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Settlers as Conquerors : Free Land Policy in Antebellum America.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Franz Steiner Verlag,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1
- Introduction; 2
- Defining the Shape of the Possible: Free Land in Congressional Debates, 1798-1829; 2.1 The Political Dismissal of a Popular Concept; 2.2 Propositions in Congressional Debates; 2.3 Conceivable Policy; 3
- Between Mass Politics and a Vehicle of Colonial Expansion: The Development of Free Land Legislation, 1828-50; 3.1 The Emergence of Mass Politics in the West and Southwest, 1820s-1830s; 3.2 Smearing Indians to Access the Government Domain: The Donation Proposal for Missouri and Arkansas, 1828-40
- 3.3 Bringing Indian Removal to a Radical Conclusion: The Donation Proposal for Florida, 1838-423.4 Countering British Dominance on the Pacific Coast: The Donation Proposal for Oregon Country, 1839-50; 4
- Realities of a Settler Utopia: Land Claims, Settlement Development and Frontier Relations, 1840-60; 4.1 Boosting the Growth of a State: Arkansas, 1840-50; 4.2 A Double-Edged Sword: Florida, 1842-50; 4.3 Contradictions of a Success: Oregon, 1850-60; 5
- Political Assessments and Reconceptualizations, 1850-62
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- Conclusion: Failures of a Land Policy and the Persistent Contradictions of Settler ImperialismAppendices; Bibliography; Index