Title At the crossroads : Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763 / Jane T. Merritt

Published 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] ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed March 17, 2017) Subject 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. Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Pennsylvania SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Indians Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Colonial period Race relations White people -- Relations with Indians Ethnische Beziehungen Indianen. Blanken. Cultuurcontact. Rassenvraagstuk. SUBJECT Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century Subject Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Indianer. Weiße. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body ISBN 9781469603735 146960373X 9780807899892 0807899895

Other Titles Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763

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