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

ISBN-13: 9780812249644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Rob Harper

Opis

In Revolutionary America, colonists surged across the Appalachians, Indians fought to preserve their land, and a bloodbath ensued-but why? Breaking with previous interpretations, Unsettling the West tells the story of a frontier where government initiatives, rather than pioneer independence, drove violence and colonization.