Paper Sovereigns : Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664 / Jeffrey Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, Jeffrey, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Treaties--History--17th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--History--17th century.

Indians of North America--Government relations--To 1789.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1603-1688--Treaties.

Great Britain.

United States--Ethnic relations--Political aspects--History--17th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--To 1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In many accounts of Native American history, treaties are synonymous with tragedy. From the beginnings of settlement, Europeans made and broke treaties, often exploiting Native American lack of alphabetic literacy to manipulate political negotiation. But while colonial dealings had devastating results for Native people, treaty making and breaking involved struggles more complex than any simple contest between invaders and victims. The early colonists were often compelled to negotiate on Indian terms, and treaties took a bewildering array of shapes ranging from rituals to gestures to pictographs. At the same time, Jeffrey Glover demonstrates, treaties were international events, scrutinized by faraway European audiences and framed against a background of English, Spanish, French, and Dutch imperial rivalries. To establish the meaning of their agreements, colonists and Natives adapted and invented many new kinds of political representation, combining rituals from tribal, national, and religious traditions. Drawing on an archive that includes written documents, printed books, orations, landscape markings, wampum beads, tally sticks, and other technologies of political accounting, Glover examines the powerful influence of treaty making along the vibrant and multicultural Atlantic coast of the seventeenth century.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

A Note on Naming and Spelling

Introduction: A Great Shout

Chapter 1. Heavy Heads: Crowning Kings in Early Virginia

Chapter 2. The Ransom of Pocahontas: Kidnapping and Dynastic Marriage in Jamestown and London

Chapter 3. Gunpowder Diplomacy: Arms and Alliance in Plymouth and Patuxet

Chapter 4. Trading Sovereignty: The Fur Trade and the Freedom of the Seas

Chapter 5. Gift of an Empire: The Land Market and the Law of Nations in Narragansett Bay

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780812209662

0812209664

OCLC:

878148190