Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy

by John Suval

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197531423
• ISBN13: 9780197531426
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"