Cultivating a Landscape of Peace : : Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America /

Cultivating a Landscape of Peace : : Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America / / Matthew Dennis.

This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeenth-century America. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of the diverse peoples who coexisted uneasily during the colonial encounter b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Dennis, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1995
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 halftones. 6 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LANDSCAPE, HISTORY, AND REPRESENTATION: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IROQUOIS
  • 1. Iroquoia: Land, World View, and Landscape
  • 2. Owasco into Iroquois: War, Peace, and the Social Construction of the Five Nations
  • 3. Deganawidah and the Cultivation of Peace: Iroquois Ideology, Political Culture, and Representation
  • PART II. NEW WORLDS
  • 4. Settlement and Unsettlement: New Netherland, Beverwyck, and the Dutch Frontier
  • 5. Commerce, Kinship, and the Transaction of Peace
  • 6. False Starts and Failed Promises: New France and the French Frontier
  • 7. Kinship, Conversion, Conquest, and the French-Iroquois Discourse of Frustration
  • Epilogue: Iroquois Reconstruction
  • Index

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