| Book Review | Journal of World History, 16.3

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Book Review

At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. By ERIC HINDERAKER and PETER C. MANCALL. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 208 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall have successfully synthesized the complex world of British backcountry resettlement in a brief, readable format. They cover the principal events, rationales, and themes of English colonization in North America from its advent to the American Revolution. As is now widely accepted, they begin the analysis with Ireland, Elizabethan England's first colonial "backcountry." The English developed basic beliefs and colonial policies in Ireland, particularly regarding land seizure, colonizing settlers, and brutally subjugating the Native population, and exported them to the "backcountry" of North America's Atlantic coast. The backcountry and the authors' narrative proceed westward from the tidewater to the headwaters, across the Appalachian Mountains to the continental interior.

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