Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 /

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The essays in this volume examine multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. The authors offer perspectives on a succession of frontier encounters.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Otros Autores: Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-, Teute, Fredrika J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
Colección:Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Temas:
To 1899
Geschichte 1750-1830.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Acculturation > United States > History > 17th century.
Acculturation > United States > History > 18th century.
Indians of North America > Government relations > To 1789.
Indians of North America > Government relations > 1789-1869.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 18th century.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 19th century.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Relations avec l'État > 1789-1869.
Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Acculturation
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America > Government relations
Indians, Treatment of
Territorial expansion
Aufsatzsammlung
Frontier.
Cultuurcontact.
Acculturatie.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Colonial question.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale.
United States
Frontier
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute
  • Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell
  • Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt
  • Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart
  • "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd
  • "Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt
  • Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron
  • Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins
  • "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton
  • To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
  • "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher
  • Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.

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