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Category : Milford (Pike County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: Vernon Leslie
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Peter Silver
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393062489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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"With remarkable literary skill, Peter Silver ... provokes hard thinking about the basic themes of our history." -- Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had rarely intermingled in Europe, and the divisions between them only grew -- until, with the arrival of the Seven Years' War, thousands of country people were forced to flee from Indian attack. Silver reveals in vivid and often chilling detail how easily a rhetoric of fear can incite entire populations to violence. He shows how it was only through the shared experience of fearing and hating Indians that these Europeans, once irreconcilable, were finally united under the ideal of religious and ethnic tolerance that has since defined the best in American life.

Author: Matthew C. Ward
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death. Making the Frontier Man examines early life and the origins of lawless behavior in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1750 to 1815. It provides a key to understanding why the trans-Appalachian West was prone to violent struggles, especially between white men. Traumatic experiences of the Revolution and the Forty Years War legitimized killing as a means of self-defense—of property, reputation, and rights—transferring power from the county courts to the ordinary citizen. Backcountry men waged war against American Indians in state-sponsored militias as they worked to establish farms and seize property in the West. And white neighbors declared war on each other, often taking extreme measures to resolve petty disputes that ended with infamous family feuds. Making the Frontier Man focuses on these experiences of western expansion and how they influenced American culture and society, specifically the nature of western manhood, which radically transformed in the North American environment. In search of independence and improvement, the new American man was also destitute, frustrated by the economic and political power of his elite counterparts, and undermined by failure. He was aggressive, misogynistic, racist, and violent, and looked to reclaim his dominance and masculinity by any means necessary.

Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: John Charles Phillips
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Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: Cadmus Book Shop
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1660

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Author: Lawrence Sidney Thompson
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1116

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