The Settlers' Empire : Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest / Bethel Saler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saler, Bethel, Author.

Series:

Early American studies.

Early American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Wisconsin.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Northwest, Old.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Statehood (American politics)--History.

Statehood (American politics).

Wisconsin Territory--Politics and government.

Wisconsin Territory.

Northwest, Old--Politics and government--1775-1865.

Northwest, Old.

United States--Territorial expansion--History.

United States.

Wisconsin Territory--History.

Northwest, Old--History--1775-1865.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West. The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference.In the Northwest Territory, diverse populations of newcomers and Natives struggled over the region's geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender roles, and economy. The success or failure of state formation in the territory thus ultimately depended on what took place not only in the halls of government but also on the ground and in the everyday lives of the region's Indians, Francophone creoles, Euro- and African Americans, and European immigrants. In this way, The Settlers' Empire speaks to historians of women, gender, and culture, as well as to those interested in the early national state, the early West, settler colonialism, and Native history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The National State Faces West

Chapter 2. The First Federal Colonialism in the Lower Northwest

Chapter 3. The Treaty Polity

Chapter 4. Exchanging Economies

Chapter 5. A ‘‘Peculiarly Missionary Ground’’

Chapter 6. The Cornerstones of Marriage and Family

Chapter 7. State of Imagination

Epilogue: The Historical Present

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780812291216

0812291212

OCLC:

896853304