Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America / Peter Silver.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: xxvi, 406 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393334906Subject(s): Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans | Indians of North America -- Wars | Frontier and pioneer life -- United States | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | United States -- Race relations | Frontier and pioneer life | Indians of North America -- Colonial period | Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans | Indians of North America -- Wars | Race relations | United States | Indianerkriege | Kulturkontakt | Europäer | Indianer | Neuengland | Indianer -- Nordamerika -- 1600-1775 | Nybyggarliv -- Förenta staterna | Rasrelationer -- historia -- Förenta staterna | Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet | 1600-1775Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 973.2 LOC classification: E77 | .S573 2008| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index.
Introduction -- An unsettled country -- Fearing Indians -- Wounds crying for vengeance -- The seven years' war and the white people -- Attacking Indians -- A spirit of enterprise -- The Quakers unmasked -- Barbarism and the American Revolution -- The postwar that wasn't -- Conclusion.
Bancroft Prize, 2008.
Surveys the history of the mid-Atlantic colonies of eighteenth-century America, and argues that the Seven Years' War of the 1750s was responsible for uniting the diverse group of European immigrants into a cohesive country.
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