Introduction -- Part I: the rapturous idea of property -- Certain unalienable land rights -- What the West could fund -- Part II: Mania's moment -- The logic of land mania -- Paper promise -- This dirty business -- Preemptive property -- Federal dealing -- Part III: the land speculation -- Great discredit -- Epilogue -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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