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020			_a9780197531457 _qebook _cNo price
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100	1		_aSuval, John, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDangerous ground : _bsquatters, statesmen, and the antebellum rupture of American democracy / _cJohn Suval.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource : _billustrations (black and white, and colour).
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford scholarship online
500			_aAlso issued in print: 2022.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	8		_aThe squatter - defined by Noah Webster as 'one that settles on new land without a title' - had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the antebellum period, white squatters propelled the Jacksonian Democratic Party to dominance and the United States to the shores of the Pacific. In a bold reframing of the era's political history, John Suval explores how Squatter Democracy transformed the partisan landscape and the map of North America, hastening clashes that ultimately sundered the nation. With one eye on Washington and the other on flashpoints across the West, this book tracks squatters from the Mississippi Valley and cotton lands of Texas, to Oregon, Gold Rush-era California, and, finally, Bleeding Kansas. The sweeping narrative reveals how claiming western domains became stubbornly intertwined with partisan politics and fights over the extension of slavery.
521			_aSpecialized.
588			_aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 19, 2022).
650		0	_aSquatters _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLand settlement _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
600	1	0	_aJackson, Andrew, _d1767-1845. _979968
610	2	0	_aDemocratic Party (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1783-1865. _921161
650		7	_aHistory. _2ukslc _927462
650		7	_aHistory of the Americas. _2thema
776	0	8	_iPrint version : _z9780197531426
830		0	_aOxford scholarship online.
856	4	0	_3Oxford Academic _uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531426.001.0001
975			_aOxford scholarship online 2024
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