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The Threshold of Manifest Destiny : Gender and National Expansion in Florida / Laurel Clark Shire.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource : 8 illusContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812293036
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F315 .S55 2016eb
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Contents:
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
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE History 2016Title is part of eBook package: Penn eBook Package 2014-2015Summary: 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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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