Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 930 g
Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 930 g
Reihe: Studies in North American Indian History
ISBN: 978-0-521-37104-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually conprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called the pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic.
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List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Refugees: a world made of fragments; 2. The middle ground; 3. The fur trade; 4. The alliance; 5. Republicans and rebels; 6. The clash of empires; 7. Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground; 8. The British alliance; 9. The contest of villagers; 10. Confederacies; 11. The politics of benevolence; Epilogue; Index.
