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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-century Pennsylvanians would have understood them, to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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. A Note on Frontiers
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Patrick Spero is the Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library. He is coeditor of The American Revolution Reborn, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Zusammenfassung
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.
