{"product_id":"the-brittle-thread-of-life-mark-williams-9780300139228","title":"The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America","description":"The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams' microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people-often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant-were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation's political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300139225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300139228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Mark Williams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44245038072063,"sku":"9780300139228","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a23a5174-efb1-4e00-9aa2-f480008a79ec.jpg?v=1693925763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-brittle-thread-of-life-mark-williams-9780300139228","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}