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Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 / edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.

Other author/creatorCayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-
Other author/creatorTeute, Fredrika J.
Other author/creatorOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
Descriptionx, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.
General note"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.
LCCN 97049510
ISBN0807824275 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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