At the Crossroads : Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763 /

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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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Main Author: Merritt, Jane T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rassenvraagstuk.
Cultuurcontact.
Blanken.
Indianen.
Ethnische Beziehungen
White people > Relations with Indians.
Race relations.
Indians of North America > Colonial period.
Indians of North America.
Frontier and pioneer life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Indiens d'Amerique > États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Vie des pionniers > Pennsylvanie.
Blancs > Pennsylvanie > Et les Indiens
Indiens d'Amerique > Pennsylvanie > 17e siecle.
Indiens d'Amerique > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Frontier and pioneer life > Pennsylvania.
White people > Pennsylvania > Relations with Indians.
Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > History > 17th century.
Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > History > 18th century.
Weisse.
Indianer.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvanie > Relations raciales > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Pennsylvanie > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Pennsylvania > Race relations > History > 17th century.
Pennsylvania > Race relations > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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 (352 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469603735

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