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White savage : William Johnson and the invention of America / Fintan O'Toole.
LIBRA - Special E195.J63 O87 2005
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Van Pelt Library E195.J63 O87 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, William, 1715-1774.
- Johnson, William.
- Six Nations.
- Pioneers--United States--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- History.
- Iroquois Indians.
- Colonial administrators.
- Irish.
- United States.
- New York (State).
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Irish--United States--Biography.
- Colonial administrators--New York (State)--Biography.
- Johnson, William, 1715-1774--Relations with Indians.
- Relations with Indians.
- Iroquois Indians--History--18th century.
- Six Nations--History.
- New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- New York (State)--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Summary:
- This provocative biography profiles William Johnson, an Irish immigrant to Britain's North American empire who became instrumental in forging America's alliance with the Iroquois.
- Contents:
- 1 Tears, Throat, Heart 1
- 2 Spectres and Apparitions 10
- 3 Amphibians 16
- 4 'Most Onruly and Streperous' 30
- 5 An Outlandish Man 39
- 6 How the White Man Came to America 48
- 7 The Holy Well 58
- 8 Raw Head and Bloody Bones 70
- 9 The Power of Absence 88
- 10 Force, Motion and Equilibrium 98
- 11 The Late Emperor of Morocco 102
- 12 Master of Ceremonies 109
- 13 An Upstart of Yesterday 121
- 14 The Precarious Salvo of Applause 130
- 15 Unspeakable Perplexity 142
- 16 The Largest Pipe in America 156
- 17 Miss Molly 169
- 18 Rowing Against the Current 178
- 19 Sir William and His Myrmidons 192
- 20 Niagara Falls 201
- 21 Barbarians 211
- 22 Seeds Worth Sowing 219
- 23 'Intoxicated with Providential Success' 229
- 24 A Stop to Their Very Being 239
- 25 What the Great Turtle Said 250
- 26 Many Civil Things 263
- 27 An Imaginary Line 268
- 28 The Patriarch 280
- 29 Negroes' Handcuffs 290
- 30 Irish Dreamtime 299
- 31 A Death Foretold 314
- 32 The End of the World 326
- 33 The Afterlife 337.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374281289
- OCLC:
- 59360234
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374281281
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