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 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2011.

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.

Local Notes:

The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.

ISBN:

9780814753118 (pb : alk. paper)

0814753116 (pb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

692291846