Speculation nation land mania in the revolutionary American republic
"This book chronicles the "mania" for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation's elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. A story of statecraft, capitalism, ambition, and corruption, it offers a new account of the consequences of...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
2023
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Series: | Early American studies
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"This book chronicles the "mania" for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation's elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. A story of statecraft, capitalism, ambition, and corruption, it offers a new account of the consequences of U.S. independence, revealing how the American Revolution produced a republican "empire of liberty" with financial speculation at its core." |
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414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781512824483 1512824488 |