Susan A Brewer

The Best Land

Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book is a history of a piece of land in central New York, the ancestral homeland of the Oneida Indians. It traces the stories over four centuries of the two families, a Mohawk/Oneida family and the author's family of early settlers, who called it home"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780801452598
• ISBN-10: 0801452597
• Artikelnr.: 69672736

Autorenporträt

Susan A. Brewer was born in Oneida, New York, and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she taught the history of American foreign relations. She is the author of To Win the Peace and Why America Fights.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The People of the Standing Stoneand the Axe Makers
2. Of One and Many Peoplein the Mohawk Valley
3. For King or Country
4. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow
5. "We Shall All Be Americans":The Story of Polly and Angel
6. Making Way for the Erie Canal
7. Squatters, Tenants, Owners
8. Realms of Orchards
9. Fire and Water
10. Ancestral Claims