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1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser |
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
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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 |
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The essays in this volume examine multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. The authors offer perspectives on a succession of frontier encounters |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-382) and index |
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Print version record |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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Acculturation -- United States -- History -- 17th century
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Acculturation -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
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Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Acculturation
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Indians of North America -- Government relations
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Indians, Treatment of
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Territorial expansion
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frontier.
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Cultuurcontact.
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Acculturatie.
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Acculturation -- United States -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
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Iwi taketake.
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United States -- Territorial expansion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559
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United States -- Colonial question.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139972
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United States
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Frontier
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USA
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United States -- Territorial expansion.
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History
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Electronic book
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Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-
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Teute, Fredrika J
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| LC no. |
97049510 |
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9781469600680 |
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1469600684 |
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