The Two Hendricks Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map: The Mohawk Valley and environs, 1670-1755
- Map: The Two Hendricks' wider world
- Introduction: Fame and Obscurity
- Chapter 1. New Birth
- Land of shadows
- The French ascendancy
- Covenant Chain
- Protestant Mohawks
- Woeful war
- The Albany swindle
- Hendrick's nadir
- Neutrality
- Chapter 2. Odyssey
- "Great veneration"
- "Glorious enterprise"
- Queen and court
- City and country
- Hendrick's transformation
- Inglorious enterprise
- Fort and chapel
- Schoharie lands
- Eclipse
- Backcountry crises
- Boston and Maine
- The land under their feet
- End of days
- Chapter 3. Hendrick's War
- Origins of the Iroquois myth
- The transformation of Mohawk country
- William Johnson and the Mohawk Valley
- Hendrick Peters Theyanoguin
- Stretching the chain
- Calls to war
- Warraghiyagey
- Hatchet in hand
- The failure of arms
- Chapter 4. Apotheosis
- Politics and prisoners
- The decline of Mohawk influence
- The chain gathers rust
- Stockbridge
- The stakes are raised
- The chain broken
- Covenant Chain and empire
- The road to the Albany Congress
- Exhortation and acquiescence
- Apotheosis
- Light and shadow
- Conclusion: Memory and Meaning
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index