The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler : : Telling Stories in Colonial America / / Joshua Piker.
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a...
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Piker, Joshua, author. The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler : Telling Stories in Colonial America / Joshua Piker. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource : 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: April 1, 1752 -- Introduction: Acorn Whistler and the Storytellers -- I. IMPERIAL -- 1. The Governor -- 2. The Governor's Story -- II. NATIONAL -- 3. The Emperor -- 4. The Emperor's Story -- III. LOCAL -- 5. The Family and Community -- 6. The Family and Community's Story -- IV. COLONIAL -- 7. The Colonists -- 8. The Colonists' Story -- Epilogue: June 5, 1753 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Cherokee Indians Violence against South Carolina Charleston. Creek Indians Kings and rulers Biography. HISTORY / North America. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). HISTORY / Native American. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013 9783110317121 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013 9783110317114 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2013 9783110374902 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674046863 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075603 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674075603.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: April 1, 1752 -- Introduction: Acorn Whistler and the Storytellers -- I. IMPERIAL -- 1. The Governor -- 2. The Governor's Story -- II. NATIONAL -- 3. The Emperor -- 4. The Emperor's Story -- III. LOCAL -- 5. The Family and Community -- 6. The Family and Community's Story -- IV. COLONIAL -- 7. The Colonists -- 8. The Colonists' Story -- Epilogue: June 5, 1753 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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