| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.3

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BOOK REVIEWS

Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier. By Paul B. Moyer. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 240 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

In Wild Yankees, Paul B. Moyer provides more than a fresh take on the sad history of the rural insurgency in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. At the same time that Moyer unpacks the story of how Anglo-Europeans competed violently with Native Americans and with each other, making his book a useful study for historians of Pennsylvania, he uses the fight for land to provide an alternative framework for understanding the American Revolution. The rural violence that characterized the region and informed people's choices during the Revolution "was not the result of ideas that trickled down from above, but of aspirations that bubbled up from below" (10). According to the author, insurgent farmers who combined their fight for land with the struggle for independence from Britain were not driven by class relations or politically motivated literature but by their fear of falling into economic and political dependency. What Moyer shows, however, is that through all this, the farmers' insurgency grew out of their daily goals and relationships. Their motives were local, personal, and organic.

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