Frontier Country : : The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania / / Patrick Spero.
In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists under...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 22 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Early American Frontiers
- Chapter 1. The Hidden Flaw
- Chapter 2. Growth Arrives
- Chapter 3. The First Frontier Crisis
- Chapter 4. Pennsylvania’s Apogee
- Chapter 5. Becoming a Frontier Country
- Chapter 6. Frontier Politics
- Chapter 7. The Permanent Frontier
- Chapter 8. The British Empire’s Frontier Crisis
- Chapter 9. Independent Frontiers
- Chapter 10. Creating a Frontier Government
- Conclusion. Frontiers in a New Nation
- Coda. Frontiers: Meanings, Controversies, and New Evidence
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments