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Patrick Spero - Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (Early American Studies) - 9780812248616 - V9780812248616
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Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (Early American Studies)

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Description for Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (Early American Studies) Hardcover. 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. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.

In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero argues, was constituted through conflicts not only between colonists and Native Americans but also among neighboring British colonies. These violent encounters created what Spero describes as a distinctive "frontier society" on the eve of the American Revolution that transformed the once-peaceful colony of Pennsylvania into ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Early American Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248616
SKU
V9780812248616
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About Patrick Spero
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.

Reviews for Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (Early American Studies)
"This important new work takes what some have called 'the f-word' of American history (frontier) and returns it to polite conversation. Starting with the common-sense idea that we should try to understand what colonists meant when they called themselves 'frontier people,' Patrick Spero suggests how Pennsylvania, 'the Keystone State,' can indeed be a keystone for understanding not only early America ... Read more

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