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Author:
Dahl, Adam, author.
Title:
Empire of the people : settler colonialism and the foundations of modern democratic thought / Adam Dahl.
Publisher:
University Press of Kansas,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
x, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
United States--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
Land settlement--History.--United States--History.
Indians of North America--Colonization.
Democracy--United States--History.
Manifest Destiny.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The settler colonial foundations of modern democratic thought -- Federalism and Empire -- From colonial dependence to imperial equality -- The coloniality of constituent power -- Settler Colonialism and Democratic Culture -- Colonial dispossession and the settler social state -- Manifest Destiny and the safety valve of colonization -- Slavery and the empire of free soil -- Unsettling Democracy -- William Apess and the paradox of settler sovereignty -- Decolonizing the democratic tradition.
Series:
American political thought
ISBN:
9780700626083
0700626085
0700626077
9780700626076
0700626069
9780700626069
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1012618643
LCCN:
2017054864
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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