Colin G. Calloway

White People, Indians, and Highlanders

Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

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Produktbeschreibung

A comparative approach to the American Indians and Scottish Highlanders, this book examines the experiences of clans and tribal societies, which underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire in Britain, the United States, and Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199737826
• ISBN-10: 0199737827
• Artikelnr.: 29503067

Autorenporträt

John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College. Author of The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (OUP, 2006); One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press, 2003; winner of six 'best book' awards); First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (Bedford/St. Martins, 1999, 2004); New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); The American Revolution in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press, 1995); The Western Abenakis in Vermont (University of Oklahoma Press, 1990); The Abenaki (Chelsea House, 1989); and Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1.: Cycles of Conquest and Colonization
2.: Scots and Indians in a Changing World
3.: Savage Peoples and Civilizing Powers
4.: Warriors and Soldiers
5.: Highland Traders and Indian Hunters
6.: Highland Men and Indian Families
7.: Clearances and Removals
8.: Highland Settlers and Indian Lands
9.: Empires, Myths, and New Traditions
Epilogue: History, Heritage, and Identity