Brothers among nations : the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 / Cynthia J. Van Zandt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Indians of North America--Colonization.

Cultural relations--United States--History.

Cultural relations.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work represents an effort to show how central Native Americans were to the European colonial project by demonstrating that the formation of alliances was the only way for the nascent colonies to succeed.

Contents:

Contents; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Mapping the Peoples of the World: Geography, Chorography, and Intercultural Alliances; 2 Laying the Groundwork for Alliances: Language, Maps, and Intercultural Suspicion; 3 "You Called Him Father": Fictive Kinship and Tributary Alliances in Tsenacommacah/Virginia; 4 Alliance Making and the Struggle for the Soul of Plymouth Colony; 5 Captain Claiborne's Alliance; 6 Alliances of Necessity: Fictive Kinship and Manhattan's Diaspora African Community; 7 Nations Intertwined: Alliances and the Susquehannocks' Geography of North America

Epilogue: Captain Claiborne's Lost IsleNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029274-1

0-19-972055-X

9786611851460

1-281-85146-9

1-4356-5737-3

OCLC:

236438587