Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley

by Elizabeth A. Perkins

Book Overview

In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era.

In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847038
• ISBN13: 9780807847039
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.3"