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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
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Tyler Boulware |
ISBN: | 9780813035802 0813035805 9780813061719 0813061717 |
OCLC Number: | 666240028 |
Description: | xii, 234 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Town, region, and nation -- "The antient friendship and union" : the Anglo-Cherokee alliance -- "In constant hostility with the Muskohge" : the Cherokee-Creek War -- "The disaffected people of great Tellico" : the struggle for empire in a Cherokee town -- "In a discontented mood" : the crisis in Virginia -- "Every town wept for some" : the Anglo-Cherokee War -- "Now all our talks are about lands" : unstable borderlands -- "Half war half peace" : the American Revolution in Cherokee country -- Epilogue : toward the Cherokee Nation. |
Responsibility: | Tyler Boulware. |
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"Uses ethnohistorical methodology to make a strong case for the importance of local, particularly village and regional, identities in American Indian history during the colonial era."--North Carolina Historical Review "Investigat[es] the interplay of the Cherokee, other Native Americans, and European imperial powers as they all struggled for control and influence in the mountain South."--Southern Historian "Will contribute much to the ongoing scholarship of Cherokee identity."--South Carolina Historical Magazine "Boulware's tour de force richly details the developing interaction of the Cherokee and British nations and of social and political events in the period. . . .This excellent study deserves to be on the bookshelf of any serious scholar interested in Cherokee and broader American Indian history."--Journal of Southern History "Aptly illustrates how Cherokee localism and regionalism changed over time and place and critically reveals the problematic nature of ahistorical or static reconstructions of Cherokee people."--Journal of American History "Boulware has secured a place among the leading lights of what might be called the New Southeastern Indian History. . . . A complex, layered portrait of Cherokee identities that changed with the challenges that faced the people."--American Historical Review Will contribute much to the ongoing scholarship of Cherokee identity. "South Carolina Historical Magazine"" Uses ethnohistorical methodology to make a strong case for the importance of local, particularly village and regional, identities in American Indian history during the colonial era. "North Carolina Historical Review"" Investigat[es] the interplay of the Cherokee, other Native Americans, and European imperial powers as they all struggled for control and influence in the mountain South. "Southern Historian"" Boulware s tour de force richly details the developing interaction of the Cherokee and British nations and of social and political events in the period. . . .This excellent study deserves to be on the bookshelf of any serious scholar interested in Cherokee and broader American Indian history. "Journal of Southern History"" Aptly illustrates how Cherokee localism and regionalism changed over time and place and critically reveals the problematic nature of ahistorical or static reconstructions of Cherokee people. "Journal of American History"" Boulware has secured a place among the leading lights of what might be called the New Southeastern Indian History. . . . A complex, layered portrait of Cherokee identities that changed with the challenges that faced the people. "American Historical Review"" Read more...


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