Wild Yankees the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier /

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Autor principal: Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction : a farmer's revolution
  • "Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy
  • "A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence
  • "A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance
  • "All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency
  • "A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier
  • "Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation
  • "Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy
  • Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier.