The Threshold of Manifest Destiny : : Gender and National Expansion in Florida /

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

In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny, Laurel Clark Shire illuminates the vital role women played in national expansion and shows how gender ideology was a key mechanism in U.S. settler colonialism.Among the many contentious frontier zones in nineteenth-century North America, Florida was an early and...

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Shire, Laurel Clark,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 illus.
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Table of 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

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