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The ordeal of the longhouse : the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization /

"Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richter, Daniel K.
Autor Corporativo: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1992]
Colección:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Iroquois in the world on the turtle's back
  • The great league of peace and power
  • The great league for war and survival
  • The economic lifeline to the Dutch
  • The ascendency of the Francophiles
  • The revolt of the Anglophiles
  • The last of the Beaver Wars
  • The political crisis of the Iroquois confederacy
  • The precarious settlement abroad and at home
  • The neutralist diplomacy of peace and balance
  • The Iroquois in a Euro-American world
  • Methodological comments.