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Informationen zum Autor Daniel K. Richter Klappentext Daniel K. Richter is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also author of several books, including Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, and Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts.In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I. NATIVE POWER AND EUROPEAN TRADE Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch Chapter 3. "That Europe be not Proud, nor America Discouraged": Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers PART II. EUROPEAN POWER AND NATIVE LAND Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn's Letter to the Kings of the Indians Chapter 8. "No Savage Should Inherit": Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence Chapter 11. "Believing that Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic Notes Index Acknowledgments
