Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley

by Rob Harper

The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively and persistently sought to establish a new political order that would affirm their land claims, protect them against attack, and promote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224964X
• ISBN13: 9780812249644
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"