At the Crossroads Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763

Name: At the Crossroads Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
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ISBN: 9780807854624

ISBN-10: 080785462X

ISBN-13: 9780807854624

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jane T. Merritt

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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 practices, social needs, gender dynamics, economic exigencies, and political forces that brought Native…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Maps, Illustrations, and Tables


Abbreviations and Short Titles


Introduction: At the Crossroads



Limits of Empire



Cultural Communities and the Politics of Land



Kinship and the Economics of Empire



Empowered Communities



The Indian Great Awakening



Mission Community Networks



War and Peace



Demonizing Delawares



Quakers and the Language of Indian Diplomacy



Boundaries Redrawn



An Uneasy Peace



Indian Nations and Empire



Moravian Indian Lebenslauf (Life Stories)



Native American Family Genealogies


Index