Frontier Country : the Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania.

Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Patrick Spero recasts the importance of frontiers, as eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians would have understood them, to the development of colonial America and the origins of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spero, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
1600-1799
Insurgency > Pennsylvania > 18th century.
Révoltes > Pennsylvanie > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Boundaries
Insurgency
Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
Pennsylvania > Boundaries > 18th century.
Maryland > Boundaries > 18th century.
Virginia > Boundaries > 18th century.
Connecticut > Boundaries > 18th century.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1754-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans)
Connecticut
Maryland
Pennsylvania
United States
Virginia
Frontier
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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