"This book chronicles the "mania" for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation's elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. A story of statecraft, capitalism, ambition, and corruption, it offers a new account of the consequences of U.S. independence, revealing how the American Revolution produced a republican "empire of liberty" with financial speculation at its core"--
"This book chronicles the "mania" for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation's elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. A story of statecraft, capitalism, ambition, and corruption, it offers a new account of the consequences of U.S. independence, revealing how the American Revolution produced a republican "empire of liberty" with financial speculation at its core"--
Contents Introduction Part I. The Rapturous Idea of Property Chapter 1. Certain Unalienable Land Rights Chapter 2. What the West Could Fund Part II. Mania's Moment Chapter 3. The Logic of Land Mania Chapter 4. Paper Promises Chapter 5. This Dirty Business Chapter 6. Preemptive Property Chapter 7. Federal Dealing Part III. The Land of Speculation Chapter 8. Great Discredit Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
Contents Introduction Part I. The Rapturous Idea of Property Chapter 1. Certain Unalienable Land Rights Chapter 2. What the West Could Fund Part II. Mania's Moment Chapter 3. The Logic of Land Mania Chapter 4. Paper Promises Chapter 5. This Dirty Business Chapter 6. Preemptive Property Chapter 7. Federal Dealing Part III. The Land of Speculation Chapter 8. Great Discredit Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
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