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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Main Author: Blaakman, Michael A. (Author, VerfasserIn.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press 2023
Series:Early American studies
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