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Muddy ground : Native peoples, Chicago's portage, and the transformation of a continent

Title: Muddy ground : Native peoples, Chicago's portage, and the transformation of a continent / John William Nelson.
Author: Nelson, John William
Publication: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

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Description

275 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"John W. Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago's portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers. Each group sought to harness Chicago's portages as a space of waterborne movement in a bid for wider regional control. Nelson compellingly demonstrates that even deep within the interior, power relations fluctuated based on the control of waterways and local environmental knowledge. The book challenges readers to take waterborne mobility and strategic geography seriously while showing how Native peoples, along with incoming Europeans, leveraged Chicago's waterways and portage paths to consolidate their control over the region. Pushing beyond political and cultural explanations for Indigenous-European relations and eventual US conquest in the borderlands of North America, Nelson shows how the environments in which collaboration and contest took place directly influenced such interactions"--

Series Statement

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

Uniform Title

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-2692

ISBN

9781469675190
1469675196
9781469675206
146967520X
9781469675213 (canceled/invalid)
9781469675220 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023008565

OCLC

1371485731

Author

Nelson, John William, author.

Title

Muddy ground : Native peoples, Chicago's portage, and the transformation of a continent / John William Nelson.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781469675220

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2692

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