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Gathering together : the Shawnee people through diaspora and nationhood, 1600-1870 /

Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The book covers nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees' first European c...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lakomäki, Sami (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
Collection:Lamar series in western history.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: "Our Straggling Nation"
  • "The Greatest Travellers in America": The Shawnee Diaspora, 1600-1725
  • "The Sheynars in General": Unity and Diversity on Imperial Borderlands, 1725-1755
  • "The Chief of All the Tribes": Nation and Empire, 1755-1775
  • "A Struggle with Death": The Twenty Years' War, 1775-1795
  • "Become an Independent People": Rebuilding the Nation, 1795-1833
  • "Dispersed like Turkeys": The Odyssey of the Western Shawnees, 1782-1840
  • "Reunion": Sovereignty and Centralization, 1833-1870
  • Conclusion: A Living Nation.