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The Backcountry and the City - Colonization and Conflict in Early America (Hardcover)
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The Backcountry and the City - Colonization and Conflict in Early America (Hardcover)
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What would an account of early America look like if it were based
on examining rural insurrections or Native American politics
instead of urban republican literature? Offering a new
interpretation of eighteenth-century America, "The Backcountry and
the City" focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the
elite urban minority.
Ed White explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the
dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together two distinct
bodies of scholarship: one stressing the political culture of the
Revolutionary era, the other taking an ethnohistorical view of
white-Native American contact. White concentrates his study in
Pennsylvania, a state in which the majority of the population was
rural, and in Philadelphia, a city that was a center of publishing
and politics and the national capital for a decade. Against this
backdrop, White reads classic political texts such as Crevecoeur's
"Letters from an American Farmer," Franklin's "Autobiography," and
Paine's ""Agrarian Justice,"" alongside missionary and captivity
narratives, farmers' petitions, and Native American treaties. Using
historical and ethnographic sources to enrich familiar texts, White
demonstrates the importance of rural areas in the study of U.S.
nation formation and finds unexpected continuities between the
early colonial period and the federal ascendancy of the 1790s.
Ed White is associate professor of English at the University of
Florida.
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