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Brothers Born of One Mother : British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast /

Leaders invoked gendered metaphors and fictive kinship relations in their discussions, and by evaluating their rhetoric, Brothers Born of One Mother investigates the intercultural conversations about gender that shaped Anglo-Indian diplomacy. LeMaster's study contributes importantly to historia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: LeMaster, Michelle, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A "friend" and a "brother": gender, family, and diplomacy
  • "I am a man and a warrior": native and British rhetorics of manhood and warfare
  • "To protect them and their wives and children": women and war
  • Guns and garters: men, women, and the trade
  • "To stay amongst them by a marriage": the politics and domestics of intermarriage
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Maps
  • The southeast circa 1715
  • The southeast in the 1740s
  • The southeast on the eve of the American Revolution
  • Cherokee settlements, mid-eighteenth century
  • Creek settlements, mid-eighteenth century.