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Your fyre shall burn no more : Iroquois policy toward new France and its native allies to 1701 /

Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds that the Iroquois' motives were primarily economic, aimed at controlling the profitabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brandão, José António, 1957-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Iroquois-French History and Historians
  • Ch. 2. Government and Social Organization among the Iroquois
  • Ch. 3. Warfare Part One: Functions and Process
  • Ch. 4. Warfare Part Two: Cultural Change and "Economic" Warfare
  • Ch. 5. The Early Wars
  • Ch. 6. "But one people"
  • Ch. 7. The Failure of Peace
  • Ch. 8. Conflict and Uncertainty
  • Ch. 9. "Your fyre shall burn no more"
  • App. A. Rebirth and Death: Iroquois Baptisms and Mortality, 1667-1679
  • App. B. Epidemics and Disease among the Iroquois to 1701
  • App. C. Iroquois Population Estimates to 1701
  • App. D. The Statistics of War: Iroquois Hostilities to 1701
  • App. E. Iroquois Population Losses to 1701
  • App. F. Iroquois Warfare: The Human Toll.