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10 produkter
Empire of Fortune
Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
Inbunden, 1988
689 kr
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The third volume of the "Covenant Chain" trilogy, this work restores the Indians to the history of colonial America as human beings and shatters the myth of their savagery. It also revises the popular images of Wolfe and Montcalm.
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
The Mask and the Man
Inbunden, 1996
564 kr
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A distinguished historian of early America sees Franklin's influence on the course of the revolutionary movement in a new light. Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous ego, smart enough not to flaunt his superiority but to let others proclaim it. To understand him and his role in great …
Ambiguous Iroquois Empire
The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies
Häftad, 1990
368 kr
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Winner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars.
Empire of Fortune
Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
Häftad, 1990
412 kr
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Empire of Fortune focuses on the so-called “French and Indian War”—the bitter last-ditch struggle between the British and the French empires in the New World. Challenging traditional historians, Francis Jennings reveals in absorbing detail the political and military realities behind the myths.
Founders of America
Häftad, 1994
360 kr
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Jennings describes the experience of the first pioneers of the North American continent, who migrated from Siberia across what is now Beringia—nomadic people who traveled over the continents and islands of the Americas, establishing networks of trails and trade and adapting the land to human …
The Creation of America
Through Revolution to Empire
Inbunden, 2000
1224 kr
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In the standard presentation of the American Revolution, a ragtag assortment of revolutionaries, inspired by ideals of liberty and justice, throw off the yoke of the British empire and bring democracy to the New World. In place of this fairy tale, Francis Jennings presents a realistic alternative: …
The Creation of America
Through Revolution to Empire
Häftad, 2000
569 kr
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In the standard presentation of the American Revolution, a ragtag assortment of revolutionaries, inspired by ideals of liberty and justice, throw off the yoke of the British empire and bring democracy to the New World. In place of this fairy tale, Francis Jennings presents a realistic alternative: …
Historic Contact
Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States in the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
Av Francis Jennings, Jerry L. Rogers m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
647 kr
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Anthropologist and preservationist Robert S. Grumet has created this up-to-date, well-written overview of historic contact with Native Americans on the colonial frontier from a vast array of documentary, archaeological, and ethnographic data never assembled before. This is a definitive history of …
Invasion of America
Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
Häftad, 2010
474 kr
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This title revisits the history of American colonization. In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent - a …
History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy
An Interdisciplinary Guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and Their League
Häftad, 1995
225 kr
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This is a comprehensive collection of essays and reference material on the historical and ethnological aspects of Iroquois diplomacy, on its rituals and formulas, and on the treaties and alliances in which it was involved.
