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The threshold of Manifest Destiny : gender and national expansion in Florida /

Among the many contentious frontier zones in nineteenth-century North America, Florida was an early and important borderland where the United States worked out how it would colonize new territories.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shire, Laurel Clark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University Of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Expansionist domesticity and settler colonialism in Florida
  • Part I. Slavery, Indian removal, and expansionist domesticity
  • Chapter 1. Property, settlement, and slavery
  • Chapter 2. Innocent victims of a "savage" war
  • Chapter 3. Seminole resistance
  • Part II. Gender and pro-settler policy
  • Chapter 4. Turning sufferers into settlers
  • Chapter 5. Gender and settler colonialism
  • Conclusion. The Garden and the spear.