Imperial entanglements : Iroquois change and persistence on the frontiers of empire / Gail D. MacLeitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLeitch, Gail D.

Series:

Early American studies.

Early American studies

Early American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iroquois Indians--History--18th century.

Iroquois Indians.

Iroquois Indians--Government relations.

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.

Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Indians of North America.

British--North America--History--18th century.

British.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imperial Entanglements chronicles the history of the Haudenosaunee Iroquois in the eighteenth century, a dramatic period during which they became further entangled in a burgeoning market economy, participated in imperial warfare, and encountered a waxing British Empire. Rescuing the Seven Years' War era from the shadows of the American Revolution and moving away from the political focus that dominates Iroquois studies, historian Gail D. MacLeitch offers a fresh examination of Iroquois experience in economic and cultural terms. As land sellers, fur hunters, paid laborers, consumers, and commercial farmers, the Iroquois helped to create a new economic culture that connected the New York hinterland to a transatlantic world of commerce. By doing so they exposed themselves to both opportunities and risks.As their economic practices changed, so too did Iroquois ways of making sense of gender and ethnic differences. MacLeitch examines the formation of new cultural identities as men and women negotiated challenges to long-established gendered practices and confronted and cocreated a new racialized discourses of difference. On the frontiers of empire, Indians, as much as European settlers, colonial officials, and imperial soldiers, directed the course of events. However, as MacLeitch also demonstrates, imperial entanglements with a rising British power intent on securing native land, labor, and resources ultimately worked to diminish Iroquois economic and political sovereignty.

Contents:

Maintaining their ground

The ascension of empire

Trade, land, and labor

Gendered encounters

Indian and other

Economic adversity and adjustment

The iroquois in British North America.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283898454

1283898454

9780812208511

081220851X

OCLC:

822655785