The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation (Creating the North American Landscape)

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HISTORY/ENVIRONMENTAL
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year and by the Pioneer The united states Society as Some of the Absolute best Books of 1989-1990, and recipient of the Agricultural History Society’s Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award

The united states’s woodland pioneers transformed forest into farmland more all of a sudden than any group in world history. Their agricultural colonization of the East not only helped guaranteeand legitimize-The united states’s “manifest destiny” but massively altered the surroundings of the North American continent as well. In The American Backwoods Frontier Terry Jordan and Matti Kaups offer a detailed analysis of this remarkable culture and present an indepth study of its colonial origins. Historians and geographers have traditionally traced these origins to the eighteenth-century Scotch-Irish and German settlers of the Pennsylvania backwoods. Jordan and Kaups reject this view, identifying seventeenth-century Delaware Valley Finns-and their Indian neighbors-as the foremost shapers of frontier culture. Their findings are especially timely, since nowadays’s problems of habitat destruction and massive environmental change have their roots in The united states’s pioneer mentality.
“Substantiates a plausible theory with solid historiographical research and abundant evidence of material culture…. A well-illustrated and readable account.” -Gregory Graves, Journal of American History
“Essentially the most original contribution to American cultural geography in many years.” -John C. Hudson, Journal of Historical Geography
Terry G. Jordan is Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History and Ideas within the Department of Geography on the University of Texas, Austin. His many books include American Log Buildings: An Old World Heritage and The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography. Matti Kaups is professor of geography and ethnohistory on the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and professor of Scandinavian Studies on the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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