Red dreams, white nightmares: pan-Indian alliances in the Anglo-American mind, 1763-1815

"From the end of Pontiac's war in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear--even paranoia--drove Anglo-American Indian policies ... As this book makes clear, the Indian wars north of the Ohio River make sense only within the context of Indians' efforts to recruit their southern cousins to t...

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1. Verfasser: Owens, Robert M. 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2022
Ausgabe:[Paperback edition]
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Zusammenfassung:"From the end of Pontiac's war in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear--even paranoia--drove Anglo-American Indian policies ... As this book makes clear, the Indian wars north of the Ohio River make sense only within the context of Indians' efforts to recruit their southern cousins to their cause ... Indian unity, especially in the form of military alliance, was the most consistent, universal fear of Anglo-Americans in the late colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. This fear was so pervasive--and so useful for unifying whites--that Americans exploited it long after the threat of a general Indian alliance had passed"--Dust jacket
Beschreibung:Originalausgabe
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 304 Seiten
ISBN:9780806191126
9780806146461

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