From the Fallen Tree
Subtitle: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807828205
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Environmental policy; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literature: Classics; USA; American - General; Ecology; United States - Colonial Period; West (U.S.); Description and travel; Frontier and pioneer life; Historiography; United States
First sentence: AS THE LITERATURE describing the Northwest Territory suggests, one rule that eighteenth-century American writing served was to offer terms for belonging on the continent.