| Title | Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 / edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.
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| Published | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
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| Description | x, 391 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8078-2427-5 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0-8078-4734-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| General Note | "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."
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| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.
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| Subjects | Acculturation -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Acculturation -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.
Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
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| Other Authors | Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-
Teute, Fredrika J.
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| Organizations | Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| LC Card Number | 97-49510/AC |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 179.5 C759
mq68797: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 42520] |
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