The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America

by Ed White and Ed White

Book Overview

What would an account of early America look like if it were based on examining rural insurrections or Native American politics instead of urban republican literature? Offering a new interpretation of eighteenth-century America, The Backcountry and the City focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the elite urban minority.

Ed White explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645590
• ISBN13: 9780816645596
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.7"