The Threshold of Manifest Destiny : Gender and National Expansion in Florida / Laurel Clark Shire.
Material type:
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- computer
- online resource
- 9780812293036
- F315 .S55 2016eb
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 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 -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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.
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In English.
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