Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1990)
“Alan Taylor’s study of conflict between settlers and great proprietors on the Maine frontier is a fascinating, richly textured story that will have a major impact on our understanding of American social history during the Revolution and early Republic.”
--Robert A. Gross
“Starting with the basic tension between small and large owners over control of the land itself, Alan Taylor constructs a powerful narrative about class conflict, republican ideology, and religious change without ever losing sight of the real people whose lives were transformed by the processes he describes. The result is social history at its best, a book that will change the way we think about early American frontier settlement and the political struggles that accompanied it.”
--William J. Cronon
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