TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suval,John
TI  - Dangerous ground: squatters, statesmen, and the antebellum rupture of American democracy 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197531457
AV  - E381 
U1  - 973.56 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Jackson, Andrew,
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Squatters
KW  - United States
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - ukslc
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - thema
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1783-1865
N1  - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - The 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
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ER  -