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Contextualizes the Development of Early American Violence and Gun Culture

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"""Expertly researched and well written, this book is a valuable addition to frontier historiography."" --Choice ""An important reconsideration of masculine gender roles in the early American West. Exploring law and government, decades of armed conflicts, immigration, ethnicity, and class, Matthew Ward charts the culture of violence that emerged to shape white westerners' perceptions of manhood and, in turn, the culture of the region. With a fresh framework of geography and chronology, Making the Frontier Man will engage historians interested in gender, the West, politics, and law."" --Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University ""Matthew Ward depicts the trans-Appalachian frontier as a world where recurrent Indian warfare and economic inequities produced anxiety and dependence rather than opportunity and independence; where men who struggled to protect their families and failed to achieve the success they had been promised sought to reaffirm their manhood in displays of violence. Exploring the meanings and purposes of violence, Making the Frontier Man is a book with disturbing relevance for our own time."" --Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington"

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Matthew C. Ward is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

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