4 options
The Backcountry and the City : Colonization and Conflict in Early America / Ed White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Ed, author.
- Series:
- Book collections on Project MUSE
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Colonial period.
- American literature.
- City and town life.
- Historiography.
- North America.
- North America--Rural conditions.
- North America--Colonization.
- North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Historiography.
- North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Ed White explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together two distinct bodies of scholarship: one stressing the political culture of the Revolutionary era, the other taking an ethnohistorical view of whiteNative American contact. White concentrates his study in Pennsylvania, a state in which the majority of the population was rural, and in Philadelphia, a city that was a center of publishing and politics and the national capital for a decade. Against this backdrop, White reads classic political texts such as Crv̈ecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, Franklin's Autobiography, and Paine's "Agrarian Justice," alongside missionary and captivity narratives, farmers' petitions, and Native American treaties. Using historical and ethnographic sources to enrich familiar texts, White demonstrates the importance of rural areas in the study of U.S. nation formation and finds unexpected continuities between the early colonial period and the federal ascendancy of the 1790s.
- Contents:
- Feelings of structure in early America
- Divides
- Seriality
- Fusion
- Institution
- Toward an antifederalist criticism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-233) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-7465-9
- OCLC:
- 1534701789
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.