Texture of Contact - European Indian Settler Communities on Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667

Informationen zum Autor David L. Preston is an associate professor of history at the Citadel. Klappentext David L. Preston is an assistant professor of history at the Citadel. Zusammenfassung A study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. It describes everyday encounters between Europeans and Indians along the frontiers of the Iroquois Confederacy in the St Lawrence! Mohawk! Susquehanna! and Ohio valleys. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Under the Tree of Peace1. The Tree of Peace Planted: Iroquois and French-Canadian Communities in the St. Lawrence Valley2. Iroquois Communities in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley: Schoharie, Tiononderoge, and Canajoharie3. Dispossessing the Indians: Proprietors, Squatters, and Natives in the Susquehanna Valley4. "The Storm Which Had Been So Long Gathering": Pennsylvanians and Indians at War5. "Our Neighbourhood with the Settlers": Iroquois and German Communities in the Seven Years' War6. Imperial Crisis in the Ohio Valley: Indian, Colonial American, and British Military CommunitiesEpilogue: The Tree of Peace UprootedList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: David L Preston, David L. Preston
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780803213692
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-1369-2
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Iroquoians and Their World (Ha; The Iroquoians and Their World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Ethnic Issues, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies