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Trans-Appalachian frontier : people, societies, and institutions, 1775-1850 /
In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of the men and women of the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the American frontier. The author divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2008]
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
| Colección: | History of the trans-Appalachian frontier.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The struggle for security
- The search for stability
- Security and stability in the territory Northwest of the Ohio
- The reach of government and the authority of law spread across the western country
- Diverse economies moving toward commercial ends
- Many varied societies emerge across the western country
- Across the old northwest and into Missouri
- The flowing of the cotton frontier
- Florida: a sectional frontier
- Arkansas: a frontier more west than south
- The new countries of Alabama and Mississippi: a frontier more south than west
- The last frontier of the old northwest: Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin
- Villages, towns, and cities spread across the western country
- Changing political patterns across three generations
- The trans-Appalachian west and the nation.