Reading territory

• Verfasst von: Walkiewicz, Kathryn
• Titel: Reading territory
• Titelzusatz: Indigenous and Black freedom, removal, and the nineteenth-century state
• Verf.angabe: Kathryn Walkiewicz
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xvii, 293 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten [261]-277
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-7294-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Expansionspolitik / (s)Landnahme / (s)Bundesstaaten / (s)Föderalismus / (s)Schwarze / (z)Geschichte 1800-1905
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1916772250

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Cover Artist's Statement -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Un-tied States -- Chapter One: The Boundary Line -- Chapter Two: Surveying the Swamp -- Chapter Three: Kansas Bleeds into Cuba -- Chapter Four: Sequoyah and the Stakes of Statehood -- Conclusion: Unmaking the State -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- Z.

Abstract

Theorizes the logics of federalism and states´ rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used to imagine states into existence while clashing with relational forms of territoriality asserted by Indigenous and Black people.