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The invasion of America : Indians, colonialism, and the cant of conquest

Title
The invasion of America : Indians, colonialism, and the cant of conquest / by Francis Jennings.
Author
Jennings, Francis, 1918-2000.
Publication
New York : Norton, 1976, ©1975.

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Description
xiii, 369 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.
Summary
Examines the relationship between European settlers and Native Americans in colonial America, concentrating on New England, and argues that the European settlement should be viewed as a conquest.
Series Statement
The Norton library ; N830
Uniform Title
Norton library ; N830.
Subject
  • To 1789
  • Geschichte 1600-1775
  • Indians of North America > New England
  • Indians of North America > Government relations > To 1789
  • Iroquois Indians > Government relations
  • Indians of North America > Government relations
  • Indians, North American > history
  • Colonialism > history
  • Indians of North America
  • Indianer
  • Indianen
  • Kolonisatie
  • New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • New England
  • Neuengland
  • Indianer
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 337-354.
Contents
Crusader ideology -- and an alternative -- Widowed land -- Reciprocal discovery -- Savage heathen -- Savage form for peasant function -- Unstable symbiosis -- Lordship and vassalage -- The deed game -- Savage war -- Pioneers -- The dread lord and lords of New England -- Two ways to Connecticut -- We must burn them -- Apostles to the indians -- Lords, subjects and sovereign: a quarter century in ten scenes -- The disunited colonies -- Outrage bloddy and barbarous -- Dead end.
ISBN
  • 0393008304
  • 9780393008302
LCCN
76025451
OCLC
  • ocm02346230
  • 2346230
  • SCSB-17028
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library