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Frontier country : the politics of war in early Pennsylvania
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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-centu...
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 American Independence.
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- English
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 2016
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- 1 online resource (353 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 0812248619, 9780812293340, 0812293347, 0812224167, 9780812248616
- OCLC
- ocn961450155
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Text in English.
- 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
Subjects
- Insurgency -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century.
- 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.