Cynthia Van Zandt

Brothers Among Nations

Mapping and Intercultural Alliances in Early America

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Produktbeschreibung

Brothers Among Nations represents an effort to show how central Natives were to the European colonial project by demonstrating that the formation of alliances was the only way for the nascent colonies to succeed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780195181241
• ISBN-10: 0195181247
• Artikelnr.: 24764621

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor of History, University of New Hampshire

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
* Introduction
* 1: Mapping the Peoples of the World: Geography, Chorography, and
Intercultural Alliances
* 2: Laying the Groundwork for Alliances: Language, Maps, and
Intercultural Suspicion
* 3: "You Called Him Father:" Fictive Kinship and Tributary Alliances
in Tsennacomacah/Virginia
* 4: Alliance-Making and the Struggle for the Soul of Plymouth Colony
* 5: Captain Claiborne's Alliance
* 6: Alliances of Necessity: Fictive Kinship and Manhattan's Diaspora
African Community
* 7: Nations Intertwined: Alliances and the Susquehannocks' Geography
of North America
* Epilogue: Captain Claiborne's Lost Isle
* Notes
* Index