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Blaakman, Michael A.
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History
Land tenure
United States
Political aspects
18th century
Revolution, 1775-1783
Indian land transfers
1783-1815
Land speculation
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Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic Hardcover
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Blaakman, Michael A.
University of Pennsylvania Press 09/19/2023
Subjects
History
Land tenure
United States
Political aspects
18th century
Revolution, 1775-1783
Indian land transfers
1783-1815
Land speculation
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9781512824483
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"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"--
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