Trade, Land, Power : : The Struggle for Eastern North America / / Daniel K. Richter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Richter, Daniel K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 35 illus.

In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Native Power and European Trade
• Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power
• Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch
• Chapter 3. "That Europe Be not Proud, nor America Discouraged": Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade
• Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience
• Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America
• Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers
• Part II. European Power and Native Land
• Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn's Letter to the Kings of the Indians
• Chapter 8. "No Savage Should Inherit": Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War
• Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was
• Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence
• Chapter 11. "Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments