(Hardback)

What would an account of early America look like if it were based on examining rural insurrections or Native American politics instead of urban republican literature Offering a new interpretation of eighteenth-century America, The Backcountry and the City focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the elite urban minority.

(Paperback)

What would an account of early America look like if it were based on examining rural insurrections or Native American politics instead of urban republican literature Offering a new interpretation of eighteenth-century America, The Backcountry and the City focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the elite urban minority.