Title Deadly medicine : Indians and alcohol in early America / Peter C. Mancall

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) : illustrations Contents History and physiology -- Stereotypes -- Trade -- Consumption -- Costs -- Temperance -- New Spain, New France -- The British Imperial moment, 1763-1775 -- Legacies Summary Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America. The author follows the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the colonial distributors and on to the Indian consumers in the eastern woodlands. To discover why Indians participated in the trade and why they experienced such a powerful desire for alcohol, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and reexamines the colonial era as a time when Indians were forming new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Finally, Mancall compares Indian drinking in New France and New Spain with that in the British colonies Forever shattering the stereotype of the drunken Indian, Mancall offers a powerful indictment of English participation in the liquor trade and a new awareness of the trade's tragic cost for the American Indians Analysis American Indians Alcoholism History United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indians of North America -- Alcohol use -- History Indians of North America. Indians -- Alcohol use -- North America -- History Alcohol Drinking -- history Alcohol Drinking -- ethnology Indians, North American Alcoholic Beverages -- adverse effects HISTORY -- Native American. Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Alcohol use Alkohol Alkoholkonsum Indianer SUBJECT United States -- ethnology Subject North America Nordamerika Indianer. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 95001445 ISBN 9781501728440 150172844X

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