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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Empires, Nations, and States
- Chapter 1. The Indian Boundary Line and the Imperialization of U.S.–Indian Affairs 27
- Chapter 2. The Sutler’s Empire: Frontier Merchants and Imperial Authority, 1790–1811 45
- Chapter 3. How Native Nations Survived the Imperial Republic 63
- Chapter 4. Catawba Women and Imperial Land Encroachment 83
- Chapter 5. An Empire of Indian Titles: Private Land Claims in Early American Louisiana, 1803–40 100
- Chapter 6. “A Slave State in Embryo”: Indian Territory, Native Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Slavery’s Empire 118
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Part II. Continent and Globe
- Chapter 7. American Protestant Missionaries, Native Hawaiian Authority, and Religious Freedom in Hawai‘i, ca. 1827–50 139
- Chapter 8. “The Colony Must Be Broken Up”: The Liberian Settler “Rebellion” of 1823–24 158
- Chapter 9. Freedom in Chains: U.S. Empire and the Illegal Slave Trade 179
- Chapter 10. An Empire of Illusions: Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, and African American Benevolent Empire Building in Africa 202
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Part III. The Ideologies of Empire
- Chapter 11. Imperialism and the American Imagination 227
- Chapter 12. Pax Americana? The Imperial Ambivalence of American Peace Reformers 248
- Chapter 13. Mercenary Ambivalence: Military Violence in Antebellum America’s Wars of Empire 265
- Notes 279
- List of Contributors 333
- Index 337
- Editors’ Acknowledgments 341
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Empires, Nations, and States
- Chapter 1. The Indian Boundary Line and the Imperialization of U.S.–Indian Affairs 27
- Chapter 2. The Sutler’s Empire: Frontier Merchants and Imperial Authority, 1790–1811 45
- Chapter 3. How Native Nations Survived the Imperial Republic 63
- Chapter 4. Catawba Women and Imperial Land Encroachment 83
- Chapter 5. An Empire of Indian Titles: Private Land Claims in Early American Louisiana, 1803–40 100
- Chapter 6. “A Slave State in Embryo”: Indian Territory, Native Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Slavery’s Empire 118
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Part II. Continent and Globe
- Chapter 7. American Protestant Missionaries, Native Hawaiian Authority, and Religious Freedom in Hawai‘i, ca. 1827–50 139
- Chapter 8. “The Colony Must Be Broken Up”: The Liberian Settler “Rebellion” of 1823–24 158
- Chapter 9. Freedom in Chains: U.S. Empire and the Illegal Slave Trade 179
- Chapter 10. An Empire of Illusions: Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, and African American Benevolent Empire Building in Africa 202
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Part III. The Ideologies of Empire
- Chapter 11. Imperialism and the American Imagination 227
- Chapter 12. Pax Americana? The Imperial Ambivalence of American Peace Reformers 248
- Chapter 13. Mercenary Ambivalence: Military Violence in Antebellum America’s Wars of Empire 265
- Notes 279
- List of Contributors 333
- Index 337
- Editors’ Acknowledgments 341