Author: Leyburn, James G.
Title: Frontier Folkways
Description: Hamden [CT], Archon Books, [1970]. Reprint. orig. cloth. 23x16cm, viii,291 pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1935 edition. In a rubbed,chipped & torn dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has a large la. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge spotting. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Massachusetts Bay Frontier (1629-1650); The French along the Saint Lawrence (1660-1698); New Zealand: a Frontier Founded upon a Theory(1839-1857); Portuguese Settlement Plantation Frontier in Bahia, Brazil (154 9 -1580); The Frontier of the Pastoral Boers in Transvaal (1835-1899); Two Frontiers in Australia (1787-1840); The Dutch Exploitative Frontier in Java; Economic Adjustments on Spanish Frontiers; Characteristic Phases of Frontier Life in America (1770-1870); The Study of Frontiers in Relation to the Science of Society. Includes bibliographical references (p.273-289) and index.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnology Brazil, Colonial History, Frontiers Canada, Settler Societies, Comparative, Puritan America