Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition

Finger, John R.

ISBN 10: 0253339855 / ISBN 13: 9780253339850

Editore: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2001

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Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xxiv, [1], 382 pages, [4]. Illustrated with maps. Contents clean and unmarked.

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• Titolo: Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition
• Editore: Indiana University Press, Bloomington
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0253339855
• ISBN 13: 9780253339850
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: very good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • American History
  • American South
  • Native Americans

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This chronicle of the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlements to the closing of the frontier in 1840 begins with an account of the prehistoric frontiers and a millennia-long habitation by Native Americans. The rest of the book deals with Tennessee’s historic period beginning with the incursion of Hernando de Soto’s Spanish army in 1540. John R. Finger follows two narratives of the creation and closing of the frontier. The first starts with the early interaction of Native Americans and Euro-Americans and ends when the latter effectively gained the upper hand. The last land cession by the Cherokees and the resulting movement of the tribal majority westward along the "Trail of Tears" was the final, decisive event of this story. The second describes the period of Euro-American development that lasts until the emergence of a market economy. Though from the very first Anglo-Americans participated in a worldwide fur and deerskin trade, and farmers and town dwellers were linked with markets in distant cities, during this period most farmers moved beyond subsistence production and became dependent on regional, national, or international markets.

Two major themes emerge from Tennessee Frontiers: first, that of opportunity the belief held by frontier people that North America offered unique opportunities for advancement; and second, that of tension between local autonomy and central authority, which was marked by the resistance of frontier people to outside controls, and between and among groups of whites and Indians. Distinctions of class and gender separated frontier elites from lesser whites, and the struggle for control divided the elites themselves. Similarly, native society was riddled by factional disputes over the proper course of action regarding relations with other tribes or with whites. Though the Indians lost in fundamental ways, they proved resilient, adopting a variety of strategies that delayed those losses and enabled them to retain, in m

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John R. Finger is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee—Knoxville.

John R. Finger is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee—Knoxville.