Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparing families in cultural and political borderlands
  • Founding networks, 1740-1765
  • Militant families : kinship in the American revolution
  • Ongoing warfare : Indian resistance and accommodation
  • The Donelsons : social, political, and economic expansion on the frontier
  • Family strategies and "civilization"
  • Creek War family networks
  • Kinship networks and evolving concepts of nationhood
  • Piecing together a new society from the remnants of the old.