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Author Lee, Jacob F., author

Title Masters of the middle waters : Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi / Jacob F. Lee
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Cities of the living, cities of the dead -- In Cahokia's wake -- Conversions -- Alliances and fractures -- A new world? -- An empire of kin -- Conquest -- Conclusion: The deep history of the midcontinent
Summary From the fall of Cahokia in the early fourteenth century to the ascendancy of the young United States in the early nineteenth century, Jacob Lee reinterprets the history of early North America by tracing the key role major midcontinental rivers and social networks played in linking Indian nations and European empires in a long, shared history of conquest and resistance. Long before Europeans set foot on the shores of North America, Siouan peoples from the Great Plains, Algonquians from the Great Lakes, and Muskhogeans from the South traded with and fought each other in the heart of the midcontinent. Starting in the early 1600s, the Illinois became the dominant power in the region, constructing a network of allies that stretched from Lake Superior to Arkansas. They were at the height of their power in 1673 when the first French explorers, Jolliet and Marquette, appeared in the region. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the major empires in North American history--France, Britain, Spain, and the US--claimed part or all of the region. When Americans came on the scene and began to remake the midcontinent, they overturned the patterns of 150 years of interaction between Indians and Europeans.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2019)
Subject Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Politics and government
Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
Indians of North America -- Kinship -- Mississippi River Valley
Illinois Indians -- History
Illinois Indians -- Politics and government
Indians, Treatment of -- Mississippi River Valley
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY -- Native American.
Illinois Indians
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Kinship
Indians of North America -- Politics and government
Indians, Treatment of
SUBJECT Mississippi River Valley -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086211
Europe -- Colonies -- America -- History
Europe -- Colonies -- History
Subject America
Mississippi River Valley
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674239777
0674239776