The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler : : Telling Stories in Colonial America /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Piker, Joshua,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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