American Leviathan Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier

Name: American Leviathan Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
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ISBN: 9780809024919

ISBN-10: 0809024918

ISBN-13: 9780809024919

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Authors: Patrick Griffin

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The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Between 1763 and 1795, westerners not only participated in a war of independence but also engaged in a revolution that ushered in fundamental changes in the relationship between individuals and society. In the West, the process was stripped down to its essence: uncertainty, competition, disorder, and frenzied and contradictory attempts to reestablish order. The violent nature of the contest to reconstitute sovereignty produced a revolutionary settlement, riddled with what we would regard as paradox, in which new notions of race went hand in hand…

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Map


Introduction: Tom Quick's Monument



State of Nature



Drawing the Line: The Ideology of British Empire in the American West



Crossing the Line: The Limits of Empire in the West



Abandoning the Line: The Failure of Empire in the West



State of War



Revolution and Chaos: Lord Dunmore's War and the Search for Order



Revolution and Uncertainty: The War of Independence and Self-Sovereignty



Revolution and Violence: Warring Against Indians and Reimagining the West



American Leviathan



South and North: Envisioning Commonwealth on the Frontier



West and East: The Limits of Commonwealth on the Frontier



American Leviathan: The Covenant for Commonwealth


Epilogue: George Rogers Clark's Monument


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index