The world of the revolutionary American republic : land, labor, and the conflict for a continent /: land, labor, and the conflict for a continent. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Shankman.
• Editors: Shankman, Andrew, 1970-
• Contents: Introduction: conflict for a continent: land, labor, and the state in the first American republic / Andrew Shankman -- Section I. Origins of the revolutionary American republic -- Producing empire: the British empire in theory and practice / Zara Anishanslin -- Slavery and the causes of the American Revolution in plantation British America / Trevor Burnard -- Native nations in the Age of Revolution / Christina Snyder -- Section II. The quest for continental control -- Independent for whom?: expansion and conflict in the south and southwest / Kathleen DuVal -- Independence for whom?: expansion and conflict in the northeast and northwest / Alyssa Mt. Pleasant -- "Such things ought not to be": the American Revolution and the first national great depression / Allan Kulikoff -- Consolidating a revolutionary republic / Max M. Edling -- The empire of liberty: land of the free, home of the slave / Peter S. Onuf -- Atlantic antislavery, American ambition: the problem of slavery in the United States in an age of disruption, 1770-1808 / James Alexander (Alec) Dun -- The War of 1812: the struggle for a continent / Alan Taylor -- The theory of civilized sentiments: emotion and the creation of the United States / Nicole Eustace -- Section III. The emergence of a continental hegemon -- Natural rights and national greatness: economic ideology and social policy in the American states, 1780s-1820s / J.M. Opal -- Land conflict and land policy in the United States, 1785-1841 / Reeve Huston -- The "high-road to a slave empire": conflict and the growth and expansion of slavery on the North American continent / John Craig Hammond -- Dissenters from the mainstream: the national and international dimensions of moral reform / Emily Conroy-Krutz -- The pendulum swings: the rise of an anti-slavery sentiment between the American Revolution and the Civil War / Richard Newman -- The world the slaveholders craved: proslavery internationalism in the 1850 / Matthew Karp -- The republic in peril: expansion, the politics of slavery, and the crisis of the 1850s / Michael A. Morrison.
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 973.4; HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General; Expansionspolitik; Politischer Konflikt; United States -- History -- 1783-1865; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317814962; 1317814967; 9781315817866; 1306661994; 9781306661997; 1315817861; 9781315817866; 9781317814979; 1317814975
• Related ISBNs: 9780415537087; 0415537088
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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