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From The Fallen Tree : Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, And The Roots Of A National Pastoral, 1749-1826., Thomas Hallock
From The Fallen Tree : Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, And The Roots Of A National Pastoral, 1749-1826., Thomas Hallock
Faculty Books
Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession, the author demonstrates how authors explored the idea of wilderness and political identities in fully populated frontiers. Hallock provides an alternative to the myth of a vacant wilderness found in later writings. Emphasizing shared cultures and conflict in the border regions, he reconstructs the milieu of Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether …
Between Accommodation And Usurpation: Lewis Evans, Geography, And The Iroquois-British Frontier, 1743-1784., Thomas Hallock
Between Accommodation And Usurpation: Lewis Evans, Geography, And The Iroquois-British Frontier, 1743-1784., Thomas Hallock
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
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