Contributor
Blaakman, Michael A. editor.
ImprintPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Descriptionvi, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note:The Indian boundary line and the imperialization of U.S.-Indian Affairs / Robert Lee -- The sutler's empire : frontier merchants and imperial authority, 1780-1811 / Susan Gaunt Stearns -- How native nations survived the imperial republic / Kathleen DuVal -- Catawba women and imperial land encroachment / Brooke Bauer -- An empire of Indian titles : private land claims in early American Louisiana, 1803-40 / Julia Lewandoski -- "A slave state in embryo" : Indian territory, native sovereignty, and the expansion of slavery's empire / Nakia D. Parker -- American Protestant missionaries, native Hawaiian authority, and religious freedom in Hawai'i, ca. 1827-50 / Tom Smith -- "The colony must be broken up" : the Liberian settler "rebellion" of 1823-24 / Eric Burin -- Freedom in chains : U.S. Empire and the illegal slave trade / M. Scott Heerman -- An empire of illusions : Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, and African American benevolent empire building in Africa -- Imperialism and the American imagination / Nicholas Guyatt -- Pax Americana? The imperial ambivalence of American peace reformers / Margot Minardi -- Mercenary ambivalence : military violence in antebellum America's wars of empire / Amy S. Greenberg.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"In its first seven decades, the United States transformed from a fledgling seaboard confederation into an imperial juggernaut with aspirations to rule a continent and beyond. The essays in this volume explore the origins of U.S. imperialism, using the lens of empire to bring Atlantic, global, and Native American perspectives on the early republic into focus within a single frame."-- Provided by publisher.