1st Edition

Fathers and Children Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian

Edited By Michael Paul Rogin Copyright 1991
    426 Pages
    by Routledge

    373 Pages
    by Routledge

    Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens. This volatile synthesis of liberal egalitarianism and an assault on the American Indians is the source of continuing interest in the sobering and important book.

    Introduction; I: Whites; Revolutionary Fathers; 2: Andrew Jackson; 3: Nature, Property, and Title; II: Whites and Indians; 4: Children of Nature; 5: Violence and War: The Sublimation of the Death Instinct into Authority; 6: Primitive Accumulation and Paternal Authority; 7: Indian Removal; III: Jacksonian Democracy; 8: The Market Revolution and the Reconstruction of Paternal Authority; 9: The Mother Bank; 10: Manifest Destiny

    Biography

    Michael Paul Rogin