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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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