The First American Frontier

Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861172

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The First American Frontier by Wilma A. Dunaway Pdf

In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.

Author : Nancy Reagin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609387907

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Re-living the American Frontier by Nancy Reagin Pdf

Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Syracuse (N.Y.)
ISBN : OCLC:13751716

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Souvenir of the Twenty-seventh Annual Convention -- of the International Association of Fire Engineers, August 22-25, Syracuse, N.Y., 1899 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen John Hornsby
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1584654279

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British Atlantic, American Frontier by Stephen John Hornsby Pdf

A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.

Author : Timothy J. Shannon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440632655

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Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier by Timothy J. Shannon Pdf

The newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential Native American Confederacy More than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce warriors, the Iroquois were just as reliant on political prowess and sophisticated diplomacy to maintain their strategic position between New France and New York. Colonial observers marveled at what Benjamin Franklin called their "method of doing business" as Europeans learned to use Iroquois ceremonies and objects to remain in their good graces. Though the Iroquois negotiated with the colonial governments, they refused to be pawns of European empires, and their savvy kept them in control of much of the Northeast until the American Revolution. Iroquois Diplomacy and the Early American Frontier is a must-read for anyone fascinated by Native American history or interested in a unique perspective on the dawn of American government.

Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Modern dance
ISBN : 9780151015153

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The First Frontier by Scott Weidensaul Pdf

Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253219329

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Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition by Malcolm J. Rohrbough Pdf

The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of these men and women from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the frontier. Rohrbough divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focus on the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics and urbanization. He also addresses Spanish, French, and Native American traditions and the anomalous presence of African slaves in the making of this story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 0896596915

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American Frontier Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael V. Uschan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 159018582X

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A Mountain Man of the American Frontier by Michael V. Uschan Pdf

Explains the role played by mountain men in the expansion of the American west.

Author : Jill Keppeler
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538237410

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Americans Weren't the First to Live on the Frontier by Jill Keppeler Pdf

The idea of the American frontier means a lot to many Americans' images of themselves and their country. Everyone has heard stories or watched movies showing tough, brave settlers crossing the continent, daring harsh weather, hostile natives, and rough terrain to nobly "tame" the frontier and expand the United States. Is this image true to life? Young readers will get a wider perspective of the tales of the American frontier, including points of view often left out of history books and popular entertainment, and learn more about the real landscape of the West.

Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786043996

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Frontier America by William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone Pdf

PREACHER + MacCALLISTER = DOUBLE THE MAYHEM Two of the Johnstones’ most legendary heroes—the rugged mountain man known as Preacher and the Scottish clan rancher Jamie Ian MacCallister, here together for the first time—are forced to choose sides in a blood-soaked battle for the heart and soul of a nation divided . . . FRONTIER AMERICA As the father of a young Crow tribesman, Preacher would like nothing more than to see the long-time natives and newly arrived settlers live together in peace. Then the killing starts . . . As a family man and frontiersman, Jamie Ian MacCallister is more than happy to help the officers at Fort Kearny negotiate a peace treaty with the Crow nation. Until it all goes to hell . . . This is not the American dream they were looking for. This is a nightmare. A brutal, blood-drenched frontier war that two heroic men must fight and win—or one struggling nation will never come together. For liberty and justice for all . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Author : Brenda C. Calloway
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807348

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America's First Western Frontier, East Tennessee by Brenda C. Calloway Pdf

Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.

Author : Kenneth E. Lewis
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483297125

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The American Frontier by Kenneth E. Lewis Pdf

The American Frontier: An Archaeological Study of Settlement Pattern and Process focuses on general rules or laws for the evolution of all agrarian frontiers, emphasizing those that are expanding. A variety of frontiers is also discussed in addition to the agrarian type to pinpoint similarities and differences. Organized into 11 chapters, this book first elucidates the processes of frontier colonization, and then describes the frontier model employed for the interpretation of documentary and material evidence for the examination of the development of South Carolina frontier. Some chapters then focus on the examination of South Carolina's colonial past in terms of the model to determine its degree of conformity with the latter and to set the stage for the archaeological study; the development of archaeological hypotheses; and a consideration of the material record. Other types of frontiers are characterized by separate developmental processes, and several of these are discussed in Chapter 10 as avenues for further research. This book will be valuable to scholars in several fields, including history, geography, and anthropology. Historical archaeologists will find it especially useful in designing research in former colonial areas and in modeling additional kinds of frontier change.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547004660

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The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy

Author : John Grenier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1139444700

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The First Way of War by John Grenier Pdf

This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.