{"product_id":"wild-yankees-the-struggle-for-independence-along-pennsylvanias-revolutionary-frontier-hardback-9780801444944","title":"Wild Yankees; The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier (Hardback) 9780801444944","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWild Yankees\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul B. Moyer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801444944\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 November 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 4 maps, 3 halftones - 4 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Yankees\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly readable account of the turmoil in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley from the 1750s to the early 1800s. Paul B. Moyer characterizes the events as a farmers' revolution, and his key argument is that the contest over control of northeastern Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as the Yankee-Pennamite Wars) was part of a larger pattern of agrarian unrest that paralleled the Regulator Movement in North Carolina in the 1770s, Shays' Rebellion in western Massachusetts in the mid-1780s, and the Whiskey Rebellion in southwestern Pennsylvania in the 1790s.... It is a vivid account of the turmoil along Pennsylvania's northeastern frontier from the mid-eighteenth century into the early nineteenth century.... \u003ci\u003eWild Yankees\u003c\/i\u003e certainly is an important contribution to the literature of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania, and it is a volume that anyone interested in frontier settlement, ethnic conflict, and Pennsylvania history should read.\u003c\/p\u003e (Pennsylvania History) \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Yankees\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul B. Moyer provides more than a fresh take on the sad history of the rural insurgency in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. At the same time that Moyer unpacks the story of how Anglo-Americans competed violently with Native Americans and with each other, making his book a useful study for historians of Pennyslvania, he uses the fight for land to provide an alternative framework for understanding the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography) \u003cp\u003eMoyer can hold his head high, having written for the northeastern Pennyslvania frontier a history comparable to Alan Taylor's \u003ci\u003eLiberty Men and the Great Proprietors\u003c\/i\u003e and Reeve Huston's \u003ci\u003eLand and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e for upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Historical Review) \u003cp\u003eThe concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war of high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees, who pursued their own struggle for autonomy. With vivid descriptions of the various levels of the conflict, the author shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates the process of settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e (Pennsylvania Heritage)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNortheast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, intersected with conflicts between whites and native peoples over land, a jurisdictional contest between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, violent contention over property among settlers and land speculators, and the social tumult of the American Revolution. In its later stages, the controversy pitted Pennsylvania and its settlers and speculators against \"Wild Yankees\"—frontier insurgents from New England who contested the state's authority and soil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Yankees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Paul B. Moyer argues that a struggle for personal independence waged by thousands of ordinary settlers lay at the root of conflict in northeast Pennsylvania and across the revolutionary-era frontier.\u003c\/b\u003e The concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war or high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees, who pursued their own struggles for autonomy. This battle for independence drew settlers into contention with native peoples, wealthy speculators, governments, and each other over land, the shape of America's postindependence social order, and the meaning of the Revolution. With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Farmer's Revolution1. \"Among Quarrelsome Yankees, Insidious Indians, and Lonely Wilds\": Natives, Colonists, and the Wyoming Controversy2. \"A Great Many Wrangling Disputes\": Authority, Allegiance, Property, and the Frontier War for Independence3. \"A Dangerous Combination of Villains\": The Social Context of Agrarian Resistance4. \"All the Difficulties of Forming a New Settlement\": Frontier Migration, Land Speculation, and Settler Insurgency5. \"A Perfect Union with the People\": Cultures of Resistance along the Revolutionary Frontier6. \"Poor and Ignorant but Industrious Settlers\": Frontier Development and the Path to Accommodation7. \"Artful Deceivers\": Yankee Notables and the Resolution of the Wyoming ControversyEpilogue: Closing the Revolutionary Frontier\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541609083160,"sku":"9780801444944","price":35.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wild-yankees-the-struggle-for-independence-along-pennsylvanias-revolutionary-frontier-hardback-9780801444944","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}