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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rosen, Deborah Ann (1955-....)
Titre(s) : Border law [Texte imprimé] : the first Seminole War and American nationhood / Deborah A. Rosen
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 316 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The First Seminole War of 1816-1818 played a critical role in shaping how the United
States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries during the early years of the republic.
Rooted in notions of American exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and racism, the legal
framework that emerged from the war laid the groundwork for the Monroe Doctrine, the
Dred Scott decision, and U.S. westward expansion over the course of the nineteenth
century. When General Andrew Jackson's troops invaded Spanish-ruled Florida in the
late 1810s, they seized forts, destroyed towns, and captured or killed Spaniards,
Britons, Creeks, Seminoles, and African-descended people. Americans vigorously debated
these aggressive actions and raised pressing questions about the rights of wartime
prisoners, the use of military tribunals, the nature of sovereignty, the rules for
operating across territorial borders, the validity of preemptive strikes, and the
role of race in determining legal rights. American justifications for the incursions,
which allocated rights along racial lines and allowed broad leeway for extra-territorial
action, forged a more unified national identity and set a precedent for an assertive
foreign policy
Sujet(s) : Guerre séminole, 1re (1817-1818)
Expansion territoriale -- États-Unis
Frontières -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Nationalisme -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.54 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1817-1825
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674967618. - ISBN 0674967615
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457957998
Notice n° :
FRBNF45795799
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : U.S.-Spanish relations and the Florida campaigns ; Rules of war and American nation-building
; Challenges and conflicts ; Creeks, Seminoles, and Indian wars ; Civilization and
nationhood ; Race and territoriality ; Military tribunals and rule of law ; Conclusion.