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No Useless Mouth Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution / Rachel B. Herrmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herrmann, Rachel B., author.
- , Cardiff University, Author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Food--History--18th century.
- African Americans.
- Indians of North America--Food--History--18th century.
- Indians of North America.
- Food security--Sierra Leone--History--18th century.
- Food security.
- Food security--Nova Scotia--History--18th century.
- Food security--United States--History--18th century.
- Sierra Leone--History--To 1896.
- Sierra Leone.
- Nova Scotia--History--1763-1867.
- Nova Scotia.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Indians.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2019
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Rachel B. Herrmann is Lecturer in Modern American History at Cardiff University. She is the editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey.
- Summary:
- "Argues that Native American and formerly enslaved communities lost the fight against hunger because white officials in the United States, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered
- Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America
- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North
- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South
- Black victual warriors and hunger creation
- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War
- Learning from restrictive food laws in Nova Scotia
- Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy
- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone
- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501716133
- 1501716131
- OCLC:
- 1082297589
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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