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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Trans-Appalachian frontier. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)608428242 Online version: Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Trans-Appalachian frontier. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)609249059 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Malcolm J Rohrbough |
ISBN: | 9780253349323 025334932X 9780253219329 0253219329 |
OCLC Number: | 122337925 |
Description: | xiv, 675 pages : maps ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | The struggle for security -- The search for stability -- Security and stability in the territory Northwest of the Ohio -- The reach of government and the authority of law spread across the western country -- Diverse economies moving toward commercial ends -- Many varied societies emerge across the western country -- Across the old northwest and into Missouri -- The flowing of the cotton frontier -- Florida: a sectional frontier -- Arkansas: a frontier more west than south -- The new countries of Alabama and Mississippi: a frontier more south than west -- The last frontier of the old northwest: Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin -- Villages, towns, and cities spread across the western country -- Changing political patterns across three generations -- The trans-Appalachian west and the nation. |
Series Title: | History of the trans-Appalachian frontier. |
Responsibility: | Malcolm J. Rohrbough. |
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. . . a library would not be complete without this work. -- Ginette Aley * Alabama Review * . . .[a] classic that has significantly affected how American frontiers are conceived and how frontiers west of the Appalachian Mountains have been interpreted.July 2009 -- Warren R. Hofstra * Shenanadoah University * Read more...
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