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Unsettling the West brings a welcome perspective to discussions about cross-cultural violence in the Ohio Valley. It also prompts a fresh conversation about the connections between American Wests. Those are significant achievements for an author's first book, or, for that matter, any book." *
Pacific Historical Review *
"Unsettling the West is deeply researched, beautifully written, and powerfully argued. Rob Harper's sustained and painstaking attention to detail and his unfailingly judicious presentation make this book the most comprehensive account of the American Revolution in the Ohio Valley to date." * Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah *
"After decades of scholarship on the Ohio Valley's history, it is difficult to say anything new or original. And yet, Rob Harper does exactly that, with a novel argument about the importance of coalition building and the influence of governmental power in the region. There is no other work on the Ohio Valley in which colonial and Indian peoples have seemed so real to me." * David Preston, The Citadel *
Table of Contents
Note on Naming
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Containment, 1765-72
Chapter 2. Patronage, 1773-74
Chapter 3. Opportunity, 1775-76
Chapter 4. Reluctance, 1777-79
Chapter 5. Horrors, 1780-82
Chapter 6. Failures, 1783-95
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
