Trade, land, power : the struggle for Eastern North America / Daniel K. Richter.

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Main Author: Richter, Daniel K.
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > First contact with Europeans.
Indigenous peoples of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of > North America > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Government relations.
North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Physical Description:viii, 315 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic world : stories of goods and power
  • Brothers, scoundrels, metal-makers : Dutch constructions of Native American constructions of the Dutch
  • "That Europe be not proud, nor America discouraged" : native people and the enduring politics of trade
  • War and culture : the Iroquois experience
  • Dutch dominos : the fall of New Netherland and the reshaping of eastern North America
  • Brokers and politics : Iroquois and New Yorkers
  • Land and words : William Penn's letter to the kings of the Indians
  • "No savage should inherit" : native peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the origins and legacies of the Seven Years War
  • The plan of 1764 : Native Americans and a British empire that never was
  • Onas, the Long Knife : Pennsylvanians and Indians after independence
  • "Believing that many of the red people suffer much for the want of food" : a Quaker view of Indians in the early U.S. republic.