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The threshold of Manifest Destiny : gender and national expansion in Florida / Laurel Clark Shire.
LIBRA F315 .S495 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shire, Laurel Clark, author.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- History.
- Ethnic relations.
- Sex role.
- Women, White.
- Women pioneers.
- Land settlement.
- Territorial expansion.
- Florida--History--1821-1865.
- Florida.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Land settlement--Florida--History--19th century.
- Manifest Destiny.
- Women pioneers--Florida--History--19th century.
- Women, White--Florida--History--19th century.
- Sex role--Florida--History--19th century.
- Florida--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- Florida--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part I Slavery, Indian Removal, and Expansionist Domesticity
- Chapter 1 Property, Settlement, and Slavery 31
- Chapter 2 Innocent Victims of a "Savage" War 55
- Chapter 3 Seminole Resistance 102
- Part II Gender and Pro-Settler Policy
- Chapter 4 Turning Sufferers into Settlers 137
- Chapter 5 Gender and Settler Colonialism 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shire, Laurel Clark. The threshold of Manifest Destiny.
- ISBN:
- 9780812248364
- 0812248368
- OCLC:
- 950955799
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