Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania

by Patrick Spero

Book Overview

In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero argues, was constituted through conflicts not only between colonists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224167
• ISBN13: 9780812224160
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"