Empires and indigenes : intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the early modern world / edited by Wayne E. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Wayne E., 1965-

Series:

Warfare and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

vii, 295 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2011]

Summary:

The shape of imperial expansion in the early modern era was everywhere contingent upon the agency of encountered indigenous peoples and the story of imperial "conquest" therefore was often a story of "convincing, cajoling, and coercing indigenous agents of harnessing their own resources in order to project power at the imperial behest or in the imperial interest." It is this interactive process of imperial power projection that is the focus of the 10 papers presented here by Lee (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), which discuss such specific topics as the blending of European and Amerindian diplomatic and military practices and cultures; the ways in which South Asian military practices determined and shaped British military capabilities in the region; the role of intercultural alliances in the expansion of the land empires of the Ottomans and the Russians; and variations in types of indigenous-imperial alliances in the Dutch, British, and Portuguese empires. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Projecting power in the early modern world : the Spanish model? / Wayne E. Lee

Gaining the diplomatic edge : kinship, trade, and religion in Amerindian alliances in early North America / Jenny Hale Pulsipher

The military revolution of native North America : firearms, forts, and polities / Wayne E. Lee

Revolution, evolution, or devolution : the military and the making of colonial India / Douglas M. Peers

Muscovite-nomad relations on the Steppe frontier before 1800 and the development of Russia's "inclusive" imperialism / David R. Jones

Ottoman ethnographies of warfare, 1500-1800 / Virginia Aksan

Firearms, diplomacy, and conquest in Angola : cooperation and alliance in West Central Africa, 1491-1671 / John K. Thornton

The opportunities and limits of ethnic soldiering : the Tupis and the Dutch-Portuguese struggle for the southern Atlantic, 1630-1657 / Mark Meuwese

Deploying tribes and clans : Mohawks in Nova Scotia and Scottish Highlanders in Georgia / Geoffrey Plank

"Cleansing the land" : Dutch-Amerindian cooperation in the suppression of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion / Marjoleine Kars.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814753116

9780814753088

0814753086

9780814753118

9780814753095

0814753094

OCLC:

692291846

Publisher Number:

99943810607