American frontiers : cultural encounters and continental conquest
With clarity and vigor, Gregory H. Nobles shows how American leaders, beginning with Washington and Jefferson, pursued a policy of national expansion and development that enabled the United States to become the dominant power on the North American continent. Within this broad framework he also explores the settlers' diverse and complex interactions with Indians as enemies, allies, and trading partners. The result is a sensitive and perceptive account of the patterns of contact and conquest on America's frontiers over the course of four centuries
Print Book, English, 1997
1st Hill & Wang ed View all formats and editions
Hill & Wang, New York, 1997
History
xvi, 286 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780809024711, 9780809016020, 0809024713, 0809016028
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The contact of cultures on the first frontiers
The struggle of empires to control the frontiers
Forging a frontier policy in the new nation
Westward expansion : political controversy and popular culture
Moving west and making communities
Indians and the enclosing frontier, 1860-90