1 option
Trade, land, power : the struggle for eastern North America Daniel K. Richter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 98 .F39 R54 2013
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richter, Daniel K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Indians, Treatment of--North America--History.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 315 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic world : stories of goods and power
- Brothers, scoundrels, metal-makers : Dutch constructions of Native American constructions of the Dutch
- "That Europe be not proud, nor America discouraged" : native people and the enduring politics of trade
- War and culture : the Iroquois experience
- Dutch dominos : the fall of New Netherland and the reshaping of eastern North America
- Brokers and politics : Iroquois and New Yorkers
- Land and words : William Penn's letter to the kings of the Indians
- "No savage should inherit" : native peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the origins and legacies of the Seven Years War
- The plan of 1764 : Native Americans and a British empire that never was
- Onas, the Long Knife : Pennsylvanians and Indians after independence
- "Believing that many of the red people suffer much for the want of food" : a Quaker view of Indians in the early U.S. republic.
- Notes:
- A collection of previously written essays.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP cited sources: Letter, William Penn to the Kings of the Indians (DAMS 8044), October 18, 1681, Penn family papers [0485A], box 7, folder 48 (Pages 138-9); Sketch of Indian mounds, Gerard Hopkins Journal (DAMS 8043), call # Am .081; A Map of Some of the South and Eastbounds of Pennsylvania in America, Being Partly Inhabited (DAMS 8634), call # Of* 500 1681ts (Page 149).
- The Indians of North America Complementary Collection.
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780812245004 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812245008 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 821217850
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.