Frontier folkways
By: [by] James G. Leyburn.
Publisher: Archon Books
Published: 1970
Place of publication: [Hamden, Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life.; Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Description: Social Adaptation Of Pioneers: Making Adjustment To ANew Life On The Frontier--The Eight Frontiers StudiedAre: The Massachusetts Bay Frontier (1629-50); The French Along The St. Lawrence (1660-98); New Zealand: AFrontier Founded Upon A Theory (1839-57); Portuguese Settlement Plalntation Frontier in Bahia, Brazil (1549-80); Frontier Of The Pastoral Boers In Transvaal (1835-99); Two Frontiers In Australia (1787-1840); Dutch Exploitative Frontier In Java And Economic Adjustments On Spanish Frontiers.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [273]-288.
A revision of the author's thesis, Yale University.