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  title info:
    title: At the edge of empire
    sub title: the backcountry in British North America
  name:
    name part: Hinderaker, Eric.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Mancall, Peter C.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  abstract: During the course of the seventeenth century, Europeans and Native Americans came together on the western edge of England's North American empire for a variety of purposes, from trading goods and information to making alliances and war. This blurred and constantly shifting frontier region, known as the backcountry, existed just beyond England's imperial reach on the North American mainland. It became an area of opportunity, intrigue, and conflict for the diverse peoples who lived there. In At the Edge of Empire, Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall describe the nature of the complex interactions among these interests, examining colorful and sometimes gripping instances of familiarity and uneasiness, acceptance and animosity, and cooperation and conflict, from individual encounters to such vast undertakings as the Seven Years' War. Over time, the European settlers who established farms and trading posts in the backcountry displaced the region's Native inhabitants. Warfare and disease each took a horrifying toll across Indian country, making it easier for immigrants to establish themselves on lands once peopled only by Native Americans. Eventually, these pioneers established economically, culturally, and politically self-sufficient communities that increasingly resented London's claims of sovereignty. As Hinderaker and Mancall show, these resentments helped to shape the ideals that guided the colonists during the American Revolution.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Prologue : Sir Humphrey Gilbert's mission to the West -- Mainland encounters -- Conflicts and captives -- New horizons -- Clash of empires -- Backcountry revolution -- Daniel Boone's America -- Epilogue : at the edge of empire -- Notes -- Essay on sources -- Index.
  note: Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Frontier and pioneer life
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Regionalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Regionalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: To 1783
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Geography
  classification: E188 .H56 2003
  classification: 973.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Regional perspectives on early America
  identifier: 0801871360
  identifier: 9780801871368
  identifier: 0801871379 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780801871375 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2002005369
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 020417
    record change date: 20151025055450.0
    record identifier: in00001756625