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Patrolling the border : theft and violence on the Creek-Georgia frontier, 1770-1796 /
Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "The Whole Nation in Common": Native Rights and Border Defense, 1770-1773; 2 "Neither the Abicas, Tallapuses, nor Alibamas Desire to Have Any Thing to Say to the Cowetas but Desire Peace": The White-Sherrill Affair and the Rise of Border Patrols, 1774-1775; 3 "Settle the Matter Yourselves": The American Revolution in Creek Country, 1775-1783; 4 "We Mean to Have the Consent of Every Headman in the Whole Nation": Treaties, Resistance, and Internal Creek Political Conflict, 1783-1785.
- 5 "Always in Defense of Our Rights": The Creek Threat, Real and Imagined, 17866 "An Uncommon Degree of Ferocity": Border Patrols and the Oconee War, 1787-1790; 7 "The Indians Still Desputed Giving up Their Rights to That Land": Renewed Border Patrols, 1790-1793; 8 "Like Pulling Out Their Hearts and Throwing Them Away": State Control, 1793-1796; Epilogue: "All the Apprehensions of Savage Ferocity"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.