Thomas Jefferson's agrarian vision and the changing nature of property -- The dialectics of government land policies (1785-1862) -- The dialectics of government land policies on arid land -- Multidimensional land -- Wilderness

Intro -- Proving Up -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Thomas Jefferson's Agrarian Vision and the Changing Nature of Property -- 2. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies (1785-1862) -- 3. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies on Arid Land -- 4....

"This book chronicles the "mania" for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation's elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. A story of statecraft, capitalism, ambition, and corruption, it offers a new account of the consequences of U.S....