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The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America

The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America

Williams, Mark

Hardcover

Colonial Period (1600-1775)Regional: New England

ISBN10: 0300139225
ISBN13: 9780300139228
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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