Contact Points American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

Name: Contact Points American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
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ISBN: 9780807847343

ISBN-10: 0807847348

ISBN-13: 9780807847343

Edition: 1998

Authors: Andrew Cayton, Fredrika J. Teute

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The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced new forms of social and political organization. Contributors to the volume offer fresh perspectives on a succession of frontier encounters from the era of the Seven Years' War in Pennsylvania, New York, and South Carolina to the Revolutionary period in the Ohio Valley to the Mississippi basin in the early national era. Drawing on ethnography, cultural and literary criticism,…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/7/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


List of Maps


Introduction: On the Connection of Frontiers "the very seat of the Prince of darkness"



Unsettling the Early American Frontier



Metaphor


Meaning, and Misunderstanding: Language and Power on the Pennsylvania Frontier



MerrittBlack "Go-Betweens" and the Mutability of "Race," Status, and Identity on New York's Pre-Revolutionary



Hart"Insidious Friends": Gift Giving and the Cherokee-British Alliance in the Seven Years' War



"Domestick Quiet being Broke": Gender Conflict among Creek Indians in the Eighteenth-Century



Pigs and Hunters


"Rights in the Woods" on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier



Distinctions and Partitions among Us: Identity and Interaction in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley



"Noble Actors" upon "the Theatre of Honour": Power and Civility in the Treaty of Greenville



Cayton


To Live among Us: Accommodation, Gender, and Conflict in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832



Murphy"More Motley than Mackinaw": From Ethnic Mixing to Ethnic Cleansing on the Frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833



Remembering American Frontiers: King Philip's War and the American Imagination



Bibliography


Conference


Program Index


Notes on the Contributors


Maps Shamokin and the Susquehanna Country The Cherokee British Alliance, 1756-1759


The Deep South Interior, circa 1800


The Upper Ohio Valley in the Late Eighteenth Century The Fox-Wisconsin Region, circa 1827