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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823238803321

Autore

Rohrbough Malcolm J

Titolo

Trans-Appalachian frontier : people, societies, and institutions, 1775-1850 / / Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-06581-5

9786612065811

0-253-00010-6

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (697 p.)

Collana

A history of the trans-Appalachian frontier

Disciplina

977/.02

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - Northwest, Old

Frontier and pioneer life - Southwest, Old

Frontier and pioneer life - Appalachian Region

Northwest, Old History 1775-1865

Southwest, Old History

Appalachian Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [637]-655) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A Note on Citations, Quotations, Maps, and Place Names; Introduction; Part I. Across the Mountains; 1. The Struggle for Security; 2. The Search for Stability; 3. Security and Stability in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio; Part II. The Widening Frontier, 1795–1815; 4. The Reach of Government and the Authority of Law Spread across the Western Country; 5. Diverse Economies Moving toward Commercial Ends; 6. Many Varied Societies Emerge across the Western Country; Part III. The First Great Migration, 1815–1830

7. Across the Old Northwest and into Missouri8. The Flowering of the Cotton Frontier; Part IV. The Enduring Frontiers; 9. Michigan: The Great Lakes Frontier; 10. Florida: A Sectional Frontier; 11. Arkansas: A Frontier More West than South; Part V. The Second Great Migration, 1830–1850; 12. The New Counties of Alabama and Mississippi:A Frontier More South than West; 13. The Last Frontier of the Old Northwest:Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin; Part VI. The Tr



Sommario/riassunto

In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of the men and women of the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the American frontier. The author divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focus on the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics and urbanization.