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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Trans-Appalachian West"”.
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Bernardo De Galvez and the Anglo-American Struggle for the Trans-Appalachian West, 1777-1779
Spanish American relations during the American Revolution were extraordinary. Madrid did not openly support the Americans as did its French ally. Instead, the Spanish chose a clandestine policy for aiding the insurgents and attempted to use the Anglo-American struggle for their own selfish …
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Walking the line of fire: violence, society, and the war for the Kentucky and Trans-Appalachian Frontier, 1774-1795
… a border war, the battle for Kentucky and the trans-Appalachian west came to define the communities which grew up in its midst, altering world views, attitudes, and compounding prejudices. It is the purpose of this thesis to accomplish two goals: first, this work will tackle the lack of recent …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
… to settle frontier lands to the south and west. Numbered among them, Baptists came in droves, spreading not only the evangelical gospel, but also Thomas Jefferson’s unique brand of Republican politics. This dissertation explores how Baptists in the trans-Appalachian West synthesized their …
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Double Characters: The Making of American Nationalism in Kentucky, 1792--1833
… the era. As residents of the first state in the trans-Appalachian West, many Kentuckians in the 1790s were antagonistic towards the new federal government to the point of threatening to secede, but they nevertheless proclaimed that such a step would be properly nationalistic. After the election …
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Protectors of the Peace: Baptist Church Tribunals and the Construction of American Religious and Civil Authority, 1780-1860
… churches served as important legal sites in the trans-Appalachian West from the Revolutionary period to the outbreak of the Civil War. By looking at how members and non-members approached their local churches for matters of dispute resolution over time and space, it illuminates a local legal …
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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
… until 1922, the longest-lasting Shaker community west of the Appalachians. Most of the first Shaker converts in Logan County had only a few years beforehand participated in a series of evangelical Presbyterian camp meetings known collectively as the Kentucky Revival, the Revival of 1800, or the …
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Theater and Empire: A History of Assumptions in the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 1700-1860"
It was no coincidence that commercial theater, a market society, the British middle class, and the "first" British Empire arose more or less simultaneously. In the seventeenth century, the new market economic paradigm became increasingly dominant, replacing the old feudal economy. Theater …