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The Brittle Thread of Life - Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America (Hardcover)
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The Brittle Thread of Life - Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America (Hardcover)
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The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New
England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were
desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were
willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark
Williams' microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers,
proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that
became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These
people--often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent,
and defiant--were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the
1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property
rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation's
political culture in a more radical direction than many of their
leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a
democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book
will resonate with all those interested in the social and political
relationships of early America.
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