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03171aam a2200529 i 4500 001 7440268E440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 230125s2023 pauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023000324 020 $a 9781512824483 020 $a 1512824488 035 $a (OCoLC)1380433930 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d IND $d YDX $d VP@ $d OCLCO $d AOW $d AZZPT $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD194 $b .B64 2023 082 00 $a 333.10973 $2 23/eng/20230524 100 1 $a Blaakman, Michael A., $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2020148949 $e author. 245 10 $a Speculation nation : $b land mania in the revolutionary American republic / $c Michael A. Blaakman. 264 1 $a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2023] 300 $a viii, 414 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Early American studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Land speculation $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Land tenure $x History $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Indian land transfers $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Revolution, 1775-1783. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1783-1815. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140185 650 6 $a Peuples autochtones $x Histoire $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 18e sieÌcle. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 1775-1783 (ReÌvolution) 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 1783-1815. 650 7 $a Indian land transfers. $2 fast 650 7 $a Land speculation. $2 fast 650 7 $a Land tenure $x Political aspects. $2 fast 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast 648 7 $a 1700-1815 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026113 655 7 $a Documents d'information. $2 rvmgf 830 0 $a Early American studies. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95098514 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717031219.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7440268E440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search