At the crossroads : Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763 / Jane T. Merritt.
Material type: 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
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469603735
- 146960373X
- 9780807899892
- 0807899895
- Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763
- Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
- Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 17th century
- White people -- Pennsylvania -- Relations with Indians
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
- Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century
- Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Indiens d'Amérique -- Pennsylvanie -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Indiens d'Amérique -- Pennsylvanie -- 17e siècle
- Blancs -- Pennsylvanie -- Et les Indiens
- Vie des pionniers -- Pennsylvanie
- Pennsylvanie -- Relations raciales -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Pennsylvanie -- Relations raciales -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Indiens d'Amérique -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Colonial period
- Race relations
- White people -- Relations with Indians
- Pennsylvania
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Pennsylvania
- Indianen
- Blanken
- Cultuurcontact
- Rassenvraagstuk
- Indianer
- Weiße
- 1600-1799
- 305.897/0748/09032 21
- E78.P4 M47 2003
- 15.85
- NN 7500
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed March 17, 2017).
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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