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Securing the West : Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785-1850.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconfiguring American Political History SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421412764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Securing the WestDDC classification:
  • 978/.02
LOC classification:
  • E179.5 .V33 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: "A Great Country, Populous and Mighty" -- 1 "Republican Notions-and Utopian Schemes" -- 2 An Embryo of Empire -- 3 Rise of the Radical West -- 4 "A World within Itself " -- 5 Foot's Resolution and the "Great Debate" -- 6 Whose West?-Alternative Visions -- 7 "A Lawless Rabble" -- Epilogue: The West Secured? -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: By 1830, many other important national concerns had become critically entangled with land disposition, creating points of ideological tension among rival regions, parties, and interests in the early years of the republic--particularly in Jacksonian America.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: "A Great Country, Populous and Mighty" -- 1 "Republican Notions-and Utopian Schemes" -- 2 An Embryo of Empire -- 3 Rise of the Radical West -- 4 "A World within Itself " -- 5 Foot's Resolution and the "Great Debate" -- 6 Whose West?-Alternative Visions -- 7 "A Lawless Rabble" -- Epilogue: The West Secured? -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

By 1830, many other important national concerns had become critically entangled with land disposition, creating points of ideological tension among rival regions, parties, and interests in the early years of the republic--particularly in Jacksonian America.

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