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At the crossroads : Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763 /

Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdepen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Merritt, Jane T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] ; London [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence. They traded skills and resources and found a common enemy in the colonial authorities, including the powerful Six Nations, who attempted to control them and the land they inhabited. Using innovative research in German Moravian records, among other sources, Merritt explores the cultural prac.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 338 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469603735
146960373X
9780807899892
0807899895