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Author Owens, Robert M

Title 'Indian Wars' and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763-1842
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (195 p.)
Series Seminar Studies
Seminar studies in history.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chronology -- Who's Who -- Glossary -- Map -- PART I: Analysis and Assessment -- Introduction: Clashing Cultures -- Competition and Conquest: How Europeans Saw America -- For the Love of God -- Gender and Colonization -- To be "Civilized" -- Forming an Imperfect Union -- The Tyranny of Terminology -- 1. Britain's Tenuous Empire -- The European Contest for North America -- Penny-wise and Pound-Foolish: Pontiac's War -- Efforts in Diplomacy -- Bleeding Pennsylvania -- War's End?
Murder and Real Estate: Lord Dunmore's War -- 2. Revolting Americans -- Many Problems and Few Solutions -- Factionalism among the Cherokees -- The British-Indian Alliance Stumbles in the North -- Southern Discomfort -- Violence Surges in the West -- 3. Confederations -- Patriotic Paternalism -- Creeks, Cherokees, and Southerners -- Elusive Peace on the Frontier -- 4. Dueling Unions -- Harmar's Campaign -- The St. Clair Disaster -- Wayne Takes Command -- The Treaty of Greenville -- Bowles Bows Out -- 5. Jeffersonians and Indians -- Jefferson's Indian Land Policy
Tecumseh: The Greatest Pan-Indianist -- A Civil War Among the Creeks -- Americans Take Aim at Canada -- Red Sticks and Old Hickory -- 6. Indian Wars in the Age of Jackson -- The Question of Florida -- The First Seminole War -- The Black Hawk War -- The Second Seminole War -- Conclusion: Making Sense of History -- Indian Wars in Memory -- "Heroes" Need "Villains" -- Professors and Producers -- PART II: Documents -- 1. George Croghan at Fort Pitt to Sir William Johnson, 31 March, 1762 -- 2. Sir William Johnson at Johnson Hall 18 March 1763, to Gen. Jeffery Amherst
3. Speech of Pontiac, 27 April 1763 -- 4. Proclamation of Gov. Josiah Martin, North Carolina, 18 May, 1774 -- 5. Virginia Gazette 17 August 1776 -- 6. Virginia Gazette 14 September 1776 -- 7. Virginia Gazette 30 May 1777 -- 8. Extract of a letter from Silver Bluff, October 28 1779 -- 9. The Royal South Carolina Gazette 9 May 1782 -- 10. Alexander McGillivray at Little Tallassee, 15 September 1788, to Richard Winn, Andrew Pickens, and George Mathews, Commissioners
11. Richard Winn, Andrew Pickens, George Mathews, to Alexander McGillivray, Esq. and the head men and warriors of the Creek nation. Hopewell on Keowee, 28 November 1788 -- 12. Kentucky Gazette, 12 April 1788 -- 13. General Joseph Martin, Agent to Cherokees, to Sec. War Knox, 2 February 1789 -- 14. "Anti-Pizaro [sic]" Boston Gazette, 2 January 1792 -- 15. Sec. of War Knox to Gov. William Blount, Southwest Territory, 31 January 1792 -- 16. Hanging Maw's Talk, 17 November 1792 -- 17. Memorial from the Widow of a Cherokee Chief, submitted to Congress 17 January 1797
Notes Description based upon print version of record
18. Piomingo in the Chickasaw Nation to General James Robertson, 17 June 1793
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000219678
1000219674