The Brittle Thread of Life

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  • Author : Mark Williams
  • Release Date : 2009-01-01
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 279
  • ISBN 13 : 0300139225
  • File Size : 59,59 MB
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The Brittle Thread of Life by Mark Williams PDF Summary

Book Description: The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.

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The Brittle Thread of Life

The Brittle Thread of Life

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The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy,