At the crossroads : Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763 / Jane T. Merritt.

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Merritt, Jane T [author.]

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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture [issuing body.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] ; London [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469603735
146960373X
9780807899892
0807899895

Other title:

Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: At the crossroads.DDC classification:

305.897/0748/09032 21

LOC classification:

E78.P4 M47 2003

Other classification:

15.85
NN 7500

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Contents:

Part 1: Limits of empire -- Cultural communities and the politics of land -- Kinship and the economics of empire -- Part 2: Empowered communities -- The Indian Great Awakening -- Mission community networks -- Part 3: War and peace -- Demonizing Delawares -- Quakers and the language of Indian diplomacy -- Part 4: Boundaries redrawn -- An uneasy peace -- Indian nations and empire.

Summary: Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence. They traded skills and resources and found a common enemy in the colonial authorities, including the powerful Six Nations, who attempted to control them and the land they inhabited. Using innovative research in German Moravian records, among other sources, Merritt explores the cultural prac.

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Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence. They traded skills and resources and found a common enemy in the colonial authorities, including the powerful Six Nations, who attempted to control them and the land they inhabited. Using innovative research in German Moravian records, among other sources, Merritt explores the cultural prac.

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