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Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18679
Date of Publication
c1998.
Call Number
973.221 C759
Responsibility
edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.
ISBN
0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.
Contents
Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - United States.
Acculturation - United States
Indians of North America
Indians, Treatment of - United States
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Congresses.
Acculturation - United States - Congresses.
Indians of North America - Congresses.
United States - Territorial expansion.
United States - Territorial expansion - Congresses.
Additional Author
Cayton, Andrew R. L.
Teute, Fredrika J.
Additional Corporate Author
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.221 C759
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