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This study explores the interactions between the indigenous Abenakian peoples of northern New England with their colonial English neighbors. Between 1675 to 1725, Abenakis and English fought four wars with each other. This series of wars was neither the product of outside agitators, nor the result of clashing interests in the land. The source of the violence was instead the ignorance of each side of the other side''s interests and values. Because of this ignorance, no one on the frontier of northern New England was able to understand how pursuit of his or her own goals might threaten others.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This study explores the interactions between the
indigenous Abenakian peoples of
northern New England with their colonial English
neighbors. Between 1675 to 1725, Abenakis and English
fought four wars with
each other. This series of wars was neither the
product of outside
agitators, nor the result of clashing
interests in the land. The source of the violence was
instead the ignorance of each side of the other
side''s interests and values. Because of this
ignorance, no one on the frontier of northern New
England was able to understand how pursuit of his or
her own goals might
threaten others. Nor was there any mechanism by which
the tensions that intercultural
contact and exchange inevitably produce could be
resolved. Consequently, disputes
between Abenakis and English quickly became violent.
This fundamental problem,
though it iterated into new forms after each
conflict, was never resolved. Demonstrating
the structural conditions that produced this
ignorance and highlighting the difficulties it
created in inter-group relations provides a model for
Indian-colonist relations that helps
illuminate violent encounters in other times and
places in North America.
Autorenporträt
Andrew M. Miller, M.A. (Yale), Ph.D (Johns Hopkins). Dr. Miller
is a former fellow of the Newberry Library, the John Carter Brown
Library, and Harvard University''s International Seminar on the
History of the Atlantic World. Dr. Miller has lectured at
McMaster University, the University of Guelph, and the University
of Toronto.