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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
text
still image
cartographic 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
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