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The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially identified the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original 13 colonies. The fledgling region now extended from the coastline of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the fantastic Lakes. With this remarkable expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States all together became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The rivalling demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American Western world. The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states low cost from the Northwest Territory, an activity that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. Inside the Northwest Place, diverse populations of newcomers and natives struggled above the region's physical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender tasks, and economy. The success or failing of state formation in the territory thus eventually depended on what occurred not only in the halls of federal but also on the ground and in the day-to-day lives of the region's Indians, Francophone creoles, Euro- and African Americans, and Western immigrants. Champion of the 2015 W. Turrentine-Jackson Award from the American History Association. The publication is shared by University of Pennsylvania Press.

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