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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shire, Laurel Clark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University Of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
1821-1865
Manifest Destiny.
Land settlement > Florida.
Sex role.
Destinée manifeste (Politique américaine)
Colonisation intérieure > Floride.
Rôle selon le sexe.
sex role.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Land settlement.
Staatsgebiet
Expansion
Innere Kolonisation
Geschlechterrolle
Florida > History > 1821-1865.
Floride > Histoire > 1821-1865.
Florida.
Florida
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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