UID:
almahu_9947414241202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxxii, 544 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9780511976957 (ebook)
Serie:
Studies in North American Indian history
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781107005624
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976957
URL:
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