Speculation Nation : : Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic / / Michael A. Blaakman.
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary or...
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Blaakman, Michael A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Speculation Nation : Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic / Michael A. Blaakman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (432 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early American Studies restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza-a story of ambition, corruption, capitalism, and statecraft that stretched across millions of acres from Maine to the Mississippi and Georgia to the Great Lakes.Patriot leaders staked the success of their revolution on the seizure and public sale of Native American territory. Initially, they hoped that fledgling state and national governments could pay the hefty costs of the War for Independence and extend a republican society of propertied citizens by selling expropriated land directly to white farmers. But those democratic plans quickly ran aground of a series of obstacles, including an economic depression and the ability of many Native nations to repel U.S. invasion. Wily merchants, lawyers, planters, and financiers rushed into the breach. Scrambling to profit off future expansion, they lobbied governments to convey massive tracts for pennies an acre, hounded revolutionary veterans to sell their land bounties for a pittance, and marketed the rustic ideal of a yeoman's republic-the early American dream-while waiting for land values to rise.When the land business crashed in the late 1790s, scores of "land mad" speculators found themselves imprisoned for debt or declaring bankruptcy. But through their visionary schemes and corrupt machinations, U.S. speculators and statesmen had spawned a distinctive and enduring form of settler colonialism: a financialized frontier, which transformed vast swaths of contested land into abstract commodities. Speculation Nation reveals how the era of land mania made Native dispossession a founding premise of the American republic and ultimately rooted the United States' "empire of liberty" in speculative capitalism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023) Land speculation United States 18th century. HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). bisacsh American Revolution. Capitalism. Dispossession. Early American republic. Eighteenth century. Government revenue financing. Land grab. Land mania. Land rights. Land speculation. Loyalist estates. Native Americans. Preemption. Settler colonialism. U.S. expansion. frontier. how the American revolution was financed. land speculators. private property rights. revolutionary war debt. westward expansion. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110791372 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512824476 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512824476/original |
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