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Masters of the middle waters : Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi
- Title
- Masters of the middle waters : Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi / Jacob F. Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Jacob F.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 348 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- From the fall of Cahokia in the early fourteenth century to the ascendancy of the young United States in the early nineteenth century, Jacob Lee reinterprets the history of early North America by tracing the key role major midcontinental rivers and social networks played in linking Indian nations and European empires in a long, shared history of conquest and resistance. Long before Europeans set foot on the shores of North America, Siouan peoples from the Great Plains, Algonquians from the Great Lakes, and Muskhogeans from the South traded with and fought each other in the heart of the midcontinent. Starting in the early 1600s, the Illinois became the dominant power in the region, constructing a network of allies that stretched from Lake Superior to Arkansas. They were at the height of their power in 1673 when the first French explorers, Jolliet and Marquette, appeared in the region. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the major empires in North American history--France, Britain, Spain, and the US--claimed part or all of the region. When Americans came on the scene and began to remake the midcontinent, they overturned the patterns of 150 years of interaction between Indians and Europeans.--
- Alternative Title
- Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi
- Subject
- Indians of North America > Mississippi River Valley > Politics and government
- Indians of North America > Mississippi River Valley > History
- Indians of North America > Kinship > Mississippi River Valley
- Illinois Indians > History
- Illinois Indians > Politics and government
- Indians, Treatment of > Mississippi River Valley
- Illinois Indians
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America > Kinship
- Indians of North America > Politics and government
- Indians, Treatment of
- Mississippi River Valley > History
- Europe > Colonies > History. > America
- America
- Mississippi River Valley
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-327) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Cities of the living, cities of the dead -- In Cahokia's wake -- Conversions -- Alliances and fractures -- A new world? -- An empire of kin -- Conquest -- Conclusion : the deep history of the midcontinent.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5135
- ISBN
- 9780674987678
- 0674987675
- LCCN
- 2018039441
- 40028928713
- OCLC
- 1057240689
- Author
- Lee, Jacob F., author.
- Title
- Masters of the middle waters : Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi / Jacob F. Lee.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-327) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028928713
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5135