War under heaven : Pontiac, the Indian Nations & the British Empire / Gregory Evans Dowd.

Dowd boldly reinterprets the causes and consequences of Pontiac's War. Where previous Anglocentric histories have ascribed this dramatic uprising to disputes over trade and land, this groundbreaking work traces the conflict back to status: both the low regard in which the British held the Indians an...

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Main Author:	Dowd, Gregory Evans, 1956-
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Pontiac, > Ottawa Chief, > -1769. Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. Indigenous peoples of North America > Wars > 1750-1815. Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity. Nativistic movements > United States > History > 18th century. United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Great Britain > Colonies > America.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xvi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : heroes of history, heaven and earth
Ottawas, Delawares and the colonial world, 1615-1760
A worldly war
Aa otherworldly war
Besieging Britons, 1763
Defending the villages, 1764
Mobs, germs, and the status of American Indians
Uneasy conclusions
Deaths and legacies.