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March, 2005
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At the Edge of Empire
The Backcountry in British North America

By Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 210. Illustrations, maps, notes, essay on sources, index. Clothbound, $49.95; paperbound, $17.95.)

At the Edge of Empire offers students of British North America an ambitious and well-written synthesis of "the territory that lay beyond the core settlements of mainland English settlements" (p. 4). Eric Hinderaker and Peter Mancall begin their analysis in Ireland, where Sir Humphrey Gilbert and other Englishmen like him created the first English backcountry. Ruthless violence and dreamy visions of a better world dovetailed nicely for the English in Ireland, establishing a pattern that would be replicated from John Smith's Jamestown to Daniel Boone's Kentucky frontier. At the Edge of Empire makes sense of these varied locales, reminding us to recognize particulars of time and place while not losing sight of the broader patterns that characterized British colonization. . . .
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