The Brittle Thread of Life
Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America
The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams' microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people--often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant--were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-300-13922-8
- EAN: 9780300139228
- Produktnummer: 4773083
- Verlag: Yale University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.0 cm 560 g
- Gewicht: 560
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Mark Williams teaches history at the Loomis Chaffee School in Connecticut.
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