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The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 / edited by David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies.
- History.
- Indians of North America--Wars.
- Great Lakes Region (North America)--History, Military--Congresses.
- Great Lakes Region (North America).
- Indians of North America--Wars--1750-1815--Congresses.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Wars--Great Lakes Region (North America)--Congresses.
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Congresses.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Congresses.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Congresses.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- America.
- France--Colonies--North America--History--Congresses.
- France.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes contains twenty essays concerning not only military and naval operations, but also the political, economic, social, and cultural interactions of individuals and groups during the struggle to control the great freshwater lakes and rivers between the Ohio Valley and the Canadian Shield.
- Contents:
- The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814: An Overview / David Curtis Skaggs 1
- French Imperial Policy for the Great Lakes Basin / W. J. Eccles 21
- Henry Bouquet and British Infantry Tactics on the Ohio Frontier, 1758-1764 / Charles E. Brodine Jr. 43
- The Microbes of War: The British Army and Epidemic Disease among the Ohio Indians, 1758-1765 / Matthew C. Ward 63
- Charles-Michel Mouet de Langlade: Warrior, Soldier, and Intercultural "Window" on the Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes / Michael A. McDonnell 79
- The Iroquois and the Native American Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1754-1794 / Jon W. Parmenter 105
- The French Connection: The Interior French and Their Role in French-British Relations in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1775 / Keith R. Widder 125
- "Ignorant bigots ard busy rebels": The American Revolution in the Western Great Lakes / Susan Sleeper-Smith 145
- Fortress Detroit, 1701-1826 / Brian Leigh Dunnigan 167
- Rethinking the Gnadenhutten Massacre: The Contest for Power in the Public World of the Revolutionary Pennsylvania Frontier / Leonard Sadosky 187
- War as Cultural Encounter in the Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins 215
- Liberty and Power in the Old Northwest, 1763-1800 / Eric Hinderaker 227
- Supper and Celibacy: Quaker-Seneca Reflexive Missions / Robert S. Cox 243
- The Mohawk/Oneida Corridor: The Geography of Inland Navigation Across New York / Philip Lord, Jr. 275
- Iroquois External Affairs, 1807-1815: The Crisis of the New Order / Carl Benn 291
- The Firelands: Land Speculation and the War of 1812 / R. Douglas Hurt 303
- Reluctant Warriors: British North Americans and the War of 1812 / E. Jane Errington 325
- Forgotten Allies: The Loyal Shawnees and the War of 1812 / R. David Edmunds 337
- "To Obtain Command of the Lakes": The United States and the Contest for Lakes Erie and Ontario, 1812-1815 / Jeff Seiken 353
- The Meanings of the Wars for the Great Lakes / Andrew R. L. Cayton 373.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held in Sept. 1998 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870135694
- OCLC:
- 45629772
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