Speculation nation : land mania in the revolutionary American republic /

"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...

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Main Author: Blaakman, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Early American studies.
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