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Author Herrmann, Rachel B., author.

Title No useless mouth : waging war and fighting hunger in the American Revolution / Rachel B. Herrmann
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered -- Power rising. Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America -- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North -- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South -- Power in flux. Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from food laws in Nova Scotia -- Power waning. Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy -- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone -- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight
Summary "Argues that Native American and formerly enslaved communities lost the fight against hunger because white officials in the United States, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis hunger, food, diplomacy, enslaved people, victual warfare, victual imperialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 1, 2019)
Subject Food security -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Food security -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 18th century
Food security -- Sierra Leone -- History -- 18th century
Indians of North America -- Food -- History -- 18th century
African Americans -- Food -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- Military -- United States.
HISTORY / Military / United States
African Americans
Food security
Indians
Indians of North America -- Food
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Indians
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- African Americans
Nova Scotia -- History -- 1763-1867. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092845
Sierra Leone -- History -- To 1896. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122352
Subject Nova Scotia
Sierra Leone
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019001071
ISBN 9781501716133
1501716131
9781501716126
1501716123