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Speculation nation land mania in the revolutionary American republic Michael A. Blaakman.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HD194 .B53 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaakman, Michael A., Author.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land speculation--United States--History--18th century.
- Land speculation.
- Land tenure--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Land tenure.
- Indian land transfers--United States--History--18th century.
- Indian land transfers.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- United States--History--1783-1815.
- Physical Description:
- 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press 2023
- Summary:
- "This book chronicles the "mania" for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation's elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. A story of statecraft, capitalism, ambition, and corruption, it offers a new account of the consequences of U.S. independence, revealing how the American Revolution produced a republican "empire of liberty" with financial speculation at its core."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line: 1. Map of Madame de Leval's attempted land purchase in Maine, undated. William Bingham estate papers [ 1583]. DAMS 18910. p.296.; 2. Ennion Williams map of Pennsylvania Population Company lands, circa 1792-1812. James Gibson papers [0236]. DAMS 13974. p.201
- ISBN:
- 9781512824483
- 1512824488
- OCLC:
- 1390181029
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