Thomas Hallock: 1 book
From the Fallen Tree
Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession,...
