The Early Imperial Republic : : From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War / / ed. by Michael A. Blaakman, Noelani Arista, Emily Conroy Krutz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• HerausgeberIn: Arista, Noelani,; Blaakman, Michael A.,; Conroy Krutz, Emily,
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Brooke,; Blaakman, Michael A.,; Burin, Eric,; Conroy-Krutz, Emily,; Duval, Kathleen,; Greenberg, Amy S.,; Guyatt, Nicholas,; Heerman, M. Scott,; Lee, Robert,; Lewandoski, Julia,; Minardi, Margot,; Parker, Nakia D.,; Power-Greene, Ousmane K.,; Smith, Tom,; Stearns, Susan Gaunt,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 7 b/w illustrations

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved Black people, and foreign subjects perceived, inte...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Empires, Nations, and States
• Chapter 1. The Indian Boundary Line and the Imperialization of U.S.–Indian Affairs
• Chapter 2. The Sutler’s Empire: Frontier Merchants and Imperial Authority, 1790–1811
• Chapter 3. How Native Nations Survived the Imperial Republic
• Chapter 4. Catawba Women and Imperial Land Encroachment
• Chapter 5. An Empire of Indian Titles: Private Land Claims in Early American Louisiana, 1803–40
• Chapter 6. “A Slave State in Embryo”: Indian Territory, Native Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Slavery’s Empire
• Part II. Continent and Globe
• Chapter 7. American Protestant Missionaries, Native Hawaiian Authority, and Religious Freedom in Hawai‘i, ca. 1827–50
• Chapter 8. “The Colony Must Be Broken Up”: The Liberian Settler “Rebellion” of 1823–24
• Chapter 9. Freedom in Chains: U.S. Empire and the Illegal Slave Trade
• Chapter 10. An Empire of Illusions: Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, and African American Benevolent Empire Building in Africa
• Part III. The Ideologies of Empire
• Chapter 11. Imperialism and the American Imagination
• Chapter 12. Pax Americana? The Imperial Ambivalence of American Peace Reformers
• Chapter 13. Mercenary Ambivalence: Military Violence in Antebellum America’s Wars of Empire
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Editors’ Acknowledgments