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... European - Americans and African Americans the American Indian context , the ties to the East , the national markets , the world situation . This book emphasizes the lives of those often ignored on the frontier - settlers south of Green ...
... European - Americans and African Americans the American Indian context , the ties to the East , the national markets , the world situation . This book emphasizes the lives of those often ignored on the frontier - settlers south of Green ...
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... European cultures . Among most historians , American Indians most directly faced the brunt of these comparisons . Since 1607 , many Euro - Americans had seen Indians as barriers to their own economic betterment . By the 1840s , however ...
... European cultures . Among most historians , American Indians most directly faced the brunt of these comparisons . Since 1607 , many Euro - Americans had seen Indians as barriers to their own economic betterment . By the 1840s , however ...
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... European civilization to the contributions of western frontier societies . He described a " democra- tizing " process by which European institutions of the colonial era became more " American " as settlers transported them through ...
... European civilization to the contributions of western frontier societies . He described a " democra- tizing " process by which European institutions of the colonial era became more " American " as settlers transported them through ...
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... Europe , and became an " effective force ... with western preponderance un- der [ Andrew ] Jackson and William Henry Harrison , and it meant the tri- umph of the frontier . " 15 By rooting his thesis in the rhetoric of place , Turner ...
... Europe , and became an " effective force ... with western preponderance un- der [ Andrew ] Jackson and William Henry Harrison , and it meant the tri- umph of the frontier . " 15 By rooting his thesis in the rhetoric of place , Turner ...
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... Europe , England , and the eastern Atlantic Coast . " 19 But it was in the consensus - building atmosphere of World War II and the early Cold War that Clark's interpretation coalesced . As he picked apart Turner's grand thesis , Clark ...
... Europe , England , and the eastern Atlantic Coast . " 19 But it was in the consensus - building atmosphere of World War II and the early Cold War that Clark's interpretation coalesced . As he picked apart Turner's grand thesis , Clark ...
Contents
Sustaining Native Autonomy in an Indian Republic A GWYNN HENDERSON | 25 |
NANCY OMALLEY | 57 |
Image and Reality on the Kentucky Frontier DANIEL BLAKE SMITH | 77 |
A Study of Distance and Connection MARION NELSON WINSHIP | 101 |
Economy and Culture on the Bluegrass Farm CRAIG THOMPSON FRIEND | 123 |
CHRISTOPHER WALDREP | 151 |
ELLEN ESLINGER | 195 |
Gender Belief and Discipline in Baptist Religious Culture BLAIRAPOGUE | 213 |
Kentucky Slaves and the Promised Land KAROLYN E SMARDZ | 237 |
About the Contributors | 253 |
Index | 255 |
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