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

Author
Shire, Laurel Clark
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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F315.S55 2016 F315.S495 2016
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Series
Language Note
Text in English.
Contents
Part I: Slavery, Indian Removal, and Expansionist Domesticity -- Property, Settlement, and Slavery -- Innocent Victims of a "Savage" War -- Seminole Resistance -- Part II: Gender and Pro-Settler Policy -- Turning Sufferers into Settlers -- Gender and Settler Colonialism -- Conclusion: The Garden and the Spear.
Summary
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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ISBN
9780812248364 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812248368 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812293037
9780812293036
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
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