{"product_id":"the-settlers-empire-colonialism-and-state-formation-in-americas-old-northwest-early-american-studies","title":"The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest (Early American Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1783 Treaty of Paris  which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic  also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion  argues author Bethel Saler  the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West. The Settlers Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory  a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that  in turn  served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference. In the Northwest Territory  diverse populations of newcomers and Natives struggled over the regions geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion  marriage  family  gender roles  and economy. The success or failure of state formation in the territory thus ultimately depended on what took place not only in the halls of government but also on the ground and in the everyday lives of the regions Indians  Francophone creoles  Euro- and African Americans  and European immigrants. In this way  The Settlers Empire speaks to historians of women  gender  and culture  as well as to those interested in the early national state  the early West  settler colonialism  and Native history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967476363317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812246632","price":92.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812246636.jpg?v=1770643037","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-settlers-empire-colonialism-and-state-formation-in-americas-old-northwest-early-american-studies","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}