Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870 - Couverture souple

Nichols, David Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0821423207 ISBN 13 : 9780821423202

Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region-the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others-shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European diseases, technologies, beliefs, and colonists. Yet in the face of these challenges, their nations' strong bonds of trade, intermarriage, and association grew and extended throughout their watery domain, and strategic relationships and choices allowed them to survive in an era of war, epidemic, and invasion.

In Peoples of the Inland Sea, David Andrew Nichols offers a fresh and boundary-crossing history of the Lakes peoples over nearly three centuries of rapid change, from pre-Columbian times through the era of Andrew Jackson's Removal program. As the people themselves persisted, so did their customs, religions, and control over their destinies, even in the Removal era. In Nichols's hands, Native, French, American, and English sources combine to tell this important story in a way as imaginative as it is bold. Accessible and creative, Peoples of the Inland Sea is destined to become a classroom staple and a classic in Native American history.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Andrew Nichols is a professor of history at Indiana State University. He is the author of two previous books on Native American history, Red Gentlemen and White Savages (2008) and Engines of Diplomacy (2016). He is also the North American book review editor for the journal Ethnohistory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0821423207
• ISBN 13: 9780821423202
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
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