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The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida (Early American Studies)
Laurel Clark Shire
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Description for The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida (Early American Studies)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; HBJK; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny, Laurel Clark Shire illuminates the vital role women played in national expansion and shows how gender ideology was a key mechanism in U.S. settler colonialism. 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. From 1821, when it acquired Florida from Spain, through the Second Seminole War, and into the 1850s, the federal government relied on women's physical labor to create homes, farms, families, and communities. It also capitalized ... Read more
In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny, Laurel Clark Shire illuminates the vital role women played in national expansion and shows how gender ideology was a key mechanism in U.S. settler colonialism. 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. From 1821, when it acquired Florida from Spain, through the Second Seminole War, and into the 1850s, the federal government relied on women's physical labor to create homes, farms, families, and communities. It also capitalized ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
Early American Studies
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248364
SKU
V9780812248364
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About Laurel Clark Shire
Laurel Clark Shire teaches history at Western University.
Reviews for The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida (Early American Studies)
This is clearly the best work to date on the manner in which domesticity justified Manifest Destiny. Shire offers a unique and compelling examination of the role of Southern women in territorial expansion, combined with a first-rate historical analysis of the Seminole and their relationship to native groups elsewhere in the Southwest, placing Florida itself in the larger context of ... Read more