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The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture. The War of 1812 increased interest in the American democratic project and elicited calls for national unity, yet the essays collected in this volume suggest that the United States did not emerge from...

The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions
between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North
America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of
the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these
groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced
new forms of social and political organization.

Contributors to the volume offer fresh perspectives on a
succession of frontier encounters from the era of the Seven
Years' War in Pennsylvania, New York, and South Carolina to...