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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: J. Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734035023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Reproduction of the original: The Chainbearer by J. Fenimore Cooper
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Category : Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 469
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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ISBN: 9781375651448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519207197
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts is a novel by the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1845. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins. The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward. Critical to the trilogy of these novels, is the sense of expansion through the measuring and acquisition of land by civilization.The title The Chainbearer represents "the man who carries the chains in measuring the land, the man who helps civilization to grow from the wilderness, but who at the same time continues the chain of evil, increases the potentiality for corruption." The central position of the "Chainbearer" allows Cooper to deal with the cultural lack of understanding Native Americans had of European concepts of land ownership. This in turn allows Cooper to critique ownership in general. Also, Cooper, like in many of his novels, focuses on the growing corruption of individuals in "civilization" as it expands. This Cooper attributes "an inherent principle in the corrupt nature of man to misuse all his privileges. . . . If history proves anything, it proves this." Two characters, in particular, represent this growing corruption of civilization, Andries Mordaunt, the chainbearer, and Aaron, known as "Thousandacres." The men represent different types of the civilization,
