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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Richter, Daniel K.
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1992]
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Subjects:
Iroquois Indians > History.
Iroquois Indians > First contact with other peoples.
Iroquois Indians > Government relations.
Iroquois > Histoire.
Iroquois > Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples.
Iroquois > Relations avec l'État.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Iroquois Indians
Iroquois Indians > First contact with other peoples
Iroquois Indians > Government relations
Iroquois > First contact with Europeans
Iroquois > Government relations
Iroquois > History
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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