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New Order of Things Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

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ISBN-10: 052166943X

ISBN-13: 9780521669436

Edition: 1999 (Abridged)

Authors: Claudio Saunt, Frederick Hoxie, Neal Salisbury

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Saunt vividly depicts a transformation in the 18th century that overturned the world of the Creek Indians and changed the Deep South. This work chronicles that transformation, that left divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless.
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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. RussellProfessor in American History at theUniversity of Georgia. He is the author ofaward-winning books, including A New Orderof Things and Black, White, and Indian and West of the Revolution.He lives in Athens, Georgia.

Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the author of several books, including The People: A History of Native America . Jay T. Nelson is a program assistant at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, the Newberry Library.

Neal Salisbury, Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences (History), at Smith College, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of MANITOU AND PROVIDENCE: INDIANS, EUROPEANS, AND THE MAKING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1500-1643 (1982), editor of THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD, by Mary Rowlandson (1997), and co-editor, with Philip J. Deloria, of THE COMPANION TO AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY (2002). With R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie, he has written THE PEOPLE: A HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICA (2007). He has contributed numerous articles to journals and edited collections and co-edits a book series, CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN…    

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Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Power and Property Before the New Order, 1733-1783
Fair persuasions: Power among the Creeks
"Martial virtue, and not riches": The Creek relationship to property
The New Order Emerges, 1784-1796
Alexander McGillivray: Mestizo yet Indian
Forging a social compact
Blacks in Creek country
The "Plan of Civilization," 1797-1811
New roles for women and warriors
Creating a country of laws and property
The power of writing
The hungry years
The New Order Challenged, 1812-1816
Seminole resistance
The Redstick War
The Negro Fort
Index