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The threshold of Manifest Destiny : gender and national expansion in Florida
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- Summary
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Among the many contentious frontier zones in nineteenth-century North America, Florida was an early and important borderland where the United States worked out how it would colonize new territories.
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- Creator
- Laurel Clark Shire
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Physical Details
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- 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812248364, 9780812293036, 0812293037, 0812248368
- OCLC
- ocn950955799, ocn956747029
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
- Text in English.
- Part I: Slavery, Indian Removal, and Expansionist Domesticity -- Property, Settlement, and Slavery -- Innocent Victims of a "Savage" War -- Seminole Resistance -- Part II: Gender and Pro-Settler Policy -- Turning Sufferers into Settlers -- Gender and Settler Colonialism -- Conclusion: The Garden and the Spear
Subjects
- Florida -- History -- 1821-1865.
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
- Land settlement -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.
- Manifest Destiny.
- Women pioneers -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.
- Women, White -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.
- Sex role -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.
- Florida -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
- Florida -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.