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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

Richard White

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An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press

Edition:: 1st Edition, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0521424607

ISBN13:: 9780521424608

kindle Asin:: B00E3URI94

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

Richard White

4.10/5 (1177 ratings)

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An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press

Edition:: 1st Edition, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0521424607

ISBN13:: 9780521424608

kindle Asin:: B00E3URI94

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