The threshold of Manifest Destiny : gender and national expansion in Florida

著者

• Shire, Laurel Clark

書誌事項

The threshold of Manifest Destiny : gender and national expansion in Florida

Laurel Clark Shire

（Early American studies）

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2016

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 on the symbolism of white women's presence on the frontier; images of imperiled women presented settlement as the spread of domesticity and civilization and rationalized the violence of territorial expansion as the protection of women and families. Through careful parsing of previously unexplored military, court, and land records, as well as popular culture sources and native oral tradition, Shire tracks the diverse effects of settler colonialism on free and enslaved blacks and Seminole families. She demonstrates that land-grant policies and innovations in women's property law implemented in Florida had long-lasting effects on American expansion. Ideologically, the frontier in Florida laid the groundwork for Manifest Destiny, while, practically, the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 presaged the Homestead Act.

目次

Note on Terminology Introduction. Expansionist Domesticity and Settler Colonialism in Florida PART I. SLAVERY, INDIAN REMOVAL, AND EXPANSIONIST DOMESTICITY Chapter 1. Property, Settlement, and Slavery Chapter 2. Innocent Victims of a "Savage" War Chapter 3. Seminole Resistance PART II. GENDER AND PROSETTLER Policy Chapter 4. Turning Sufferers into Settlers Chapter 5. Gender and Settler Colonialism Conclusion. The Garden and the Spear Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC01622445
• ISBN:
  • 9780812248364
• LCCN: 2016047735
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Philadelphia
• ページ数/冊数: 273 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : F315
  • DC23 : 975.9/04
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Florida -- History -- 1821-1865
  • LCSH : United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Land settlement -- Florida -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Manifest Destiny
  • LCSH : Women pioneers -- Florida -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Women, White -- Florida -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Sex role -- Florida -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Florida -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Florida -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA28317991