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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Claudio Saunt |
| ISBN: | 0521660432 hb 9780521660433 hb 052166943X pb 9780521669436 pb |
| OCLC Number: | 40693813 |
| Description: | xiv, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt 1: Power and property before the new order, 1733-1783: Fair persuasions: power among the Creeks -- 'Martial virtue, and not riches': the Creek relationship to property -- pt. 2: The new order emerges, 1784-1796: Alexander McGillivray: mestizo yet Indian -- Forging a social compact -- Blacks in Creel country -- pt. 3: The 'plan of civilization', 1797-1811: New roles for women and warriors -- Creating a country of laws and property -- The power of writing -- The hungry years -- pt. 4: The new order challenged, 1812-1816: Seminole resistance -- The Redstick War -- The Negro Fort. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in North American Indian history. |
| Responsibility: | Claudio Saunt. |
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Abstract:
"The story told here is a critical yet unknown chapter in the creation of the American republic.
Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. By 1800, some Creeks, whose most valuable belongings.
Had once been deerskins, owned hundreds of African American slaves and thousands of cattle. Their leaders, who formerly strove for consensus, now ruled by force.
New property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation.
A New Order of Things is the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless."--Jacket.
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