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The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 / Richard White.
Author
White, Richard, 1947-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Description
xvi, 544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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E99.A35 W48 1991
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Subject(s)
Algonquian Indians
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Great Lakes Region (North America)
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History
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Algonquian Indians
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First contact with other peoples
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Great Lakes Region (North America).
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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Great Lakes Region (North America)
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History
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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First contact with other peoples
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Great Lakes Region (North America).
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Algonquian Indians
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History
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Great Lakes Region (North America)
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History
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
Cambridge studies in North American Indian history
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Summary note
This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called the "Pays d'en haut". Here the older worlds of the Algonquins and various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the recreation of the Indians as alien and exotic. The process of accommodation described in this book takes place in a middle ground, a place in between cultures and peoples, and in between empires and non-state villages. On the middle ground people try to persuade others who are different than themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. From the creative misunderstandings that result, there arise shared meanings and new practices.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Refugees : a world made of fragments
The middle ground
The fur trade
The alliance
Republicans and rebels
The clash of empires
Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground
The British alliance
The contest of villagers
Confederacies
The politics of benevolence
Epilogue.
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ISBN
052137104X
9780521371049
0521424607 ((pbk.))
9780521424608 ((pbk.))
LCCN
90002679
OCLC
22344887
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