Screen LibraryTrade, land, power : the struggle for eastern North America /
"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, Nat...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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 and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land, but they did so in very different ways. For Native Americans, trade was a collective act. The alliances that made a people powerful became visible through material exchanges that forged connecti |
| Item Description: | A collection of previously written essays. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-305) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780812245004 : 0812245008 |
| Index Number: | E98 |
| CLC: | K710.8 |
| Call Number: | K710.8/R535 |