Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 544 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9780511976957
Series Statement:
Studies in North American Indian history
Content:
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.
Content:
Refugees : a world made of fragments -- The middle ground -- The fur trade -- The alliance -- Republicans and rebels -- The clash of empires -- Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground --The British alliance -- The contest of villagers -- Confederacies -- The politics of benevolence
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521183444
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107005624
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107005624
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521183444
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als White, Richard, 1947 - The middle ground Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 9781107005624
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521183444
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107005620
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521183448
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107005624
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Indianer
;
Große Seen
;
Geschichte 1650-1815
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511976957
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