Format:
1 online resource (314 pages)
ISBN:
9780511150715
Series Statement:
Studies in North American Indian History
Content:
A New Order of Things chronicles the changing world of the Creek Indians.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations and maps -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Power and property before the new order, 1733-1783 -- 1 Fair persuasions: Power among the Creeks -- 2 "Martial virtue, and not riches": The Creek relationship to property -- PART II The new order emerges, 1784-1796 -- 3 Alexander McGillivray: Mestizo yet Indian -- 4 Forging a social compact -- 5 Blacks in Creek country -- PART III The "plan of civilization," 1797-1811 -- 6 New roles for women and warriors -- 7 Creating a country of laws and property -- 8 The power of writing -- 9 The hungry years -- PART IV The new order challenged, 1812-1816 -- 10 Seminole resistance -- 11 The Redstick War -- 12 The Negro Fort -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521660433
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521660433
Additional Edition:
Print version A New Order of Things : Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=201958
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