Senator Benton and the People : : Master Race Democracy on the Early American Frontier / / Ken Mueller.
Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 / Honor and Country: Bloody Island
- 2 / The Transformation of Frontier Missouri: Frontiers of Inclusion, Frontiers of Exclusion
- 3 / The Triumph of Master Race Democracy: The Racialization of American Politics
- 4 / “The Land Belongs to the People”: Public Lands, States’ Rights, and the “Indian Problem”
- 5 / Old Bullion and the Borderlands: Mexican Dollars
- 6 / The Destiny of the Races: The Free Soil Schism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index