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The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 / Richard White.
- Title
- The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 / Richard White.
- Author
- White, Richard, 1947-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xxxii, 544 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study"--
- "An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead about a search for accomodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut"--
- Series Statement
- Studies in North American Indian history
- Subject
- Algonquian Indians > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History
- Algonquian Indians > First contact with other peoples > Great Lakes Region (North America)
- Indians of North America > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History
- Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples > Great Lakes Region (North America)
- Algonquiens > Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire
- Algonquiens > Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples > Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord)
- Peuples autochtones > Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire
- Algonquian Indians
- Algonquian Indians > First contact with other peoples
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples
- Great Lakes Region (North America) > History
- Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire
- Great Lakes Region
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Refugees: a world made of fragments; 2. The middle ground; 3. The fur trade; 4. The alliance; 5. Republicans and rebels; 6. The clash of empires; 7. Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground; 8. The British alliance; 9. The contest of villagers; 10. Confederacies; 11. The politics of benevolence; Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9781107005624
- 1107005620
- 9780521183444
- 0521183448
- LCCN
- 2010034929
- OCLC
- 721337915
- SCSB-11831639
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library