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The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Between 1763 and 1795, westerners not only participated in a war of independence but also engaged in a revolution that ushered in fundamental changes in the relationship between individuals and society. In the West, the process was stripped down to its essence: uncertainty, competition, disorder, and frenzied and contradictory attempts to reestablish order. The violent nature of the contest to reconstitute sovereignty produced a revolutionary settlement, riddled with what we would regard as paradox, in which new notions of race went hand in hand with new definitions of citizenship. In the almost Hobbesian state of nature that the West had become, westerners created a liberating yet frightening vision of what society was to be.

In vivid detail, Patrick Griffin recaptures a chaotic world of settlers, Indians, speculators, British regulars, and American and state officials vying with one another to remake the American West during its most formative period.

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  • Title American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
  • Author Patrick Griffin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hill & Wang
  • Publication date 2008-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780809024919 / 0809024918
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History - To 1848, Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 977.102

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Patrick Griffin is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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