Long knives and the longhouse : Anglo-Iroquois politics and the expansion of colonial Virginia / Matthew L. Rhoades.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhoades, Matthew L., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iroquois Indians--Government relations.

Iroquois Indians.

History.

Iroquois Indians--Land tenure.

Territorial expansion.

Virginia--Territorial expansion--History--18th century.

Virginia.

Iroquois Indians--Land tenure--Virginia.

Iroquois Indians--Virginia--History--18th century.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Virginia--Politics and government--To 1775.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2010]

Summary:

Long Knives and the Longhouse will appeal most to readers interested in the political history of Virginia's colonial era expansion. Politicians and land speculators figure prominently in the story, but so too do Iroquois diplomats and British officials who abetted the Old Dominion's imperialism. Matthew L. Rhoades focuses more on the intercultural diplomacy that drove Virginia's expansion rather than internal processes that have been detailed in many other excellent studies of the Old Dominion in the colonial period.

Contents:

Covenants of peace

Alexander Spotswood's golden horseshoes

The Lancaster Treaty

Contest for the Ohio

Virginia and the Seven Years' War

The Fort Stanwix Treaty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611470581

1611470587

9781611470598

1611470595

9780838642160

0838642160

OCLC:

553364951