Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Other Authors:	Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-, Teute, Fredrika J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998]
Subjects:	Frontier and pioneer life > United States. Acculturation > United States > History > 17th century. Acculturation > United States > History > 18th century. Indians of North America > Government relations > To 1789. Indians of North America > Government relations > 1789-1869. Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 18th century. Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 19th century. United States > Territorial expansion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute
Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell
Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt
Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart
"Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd
"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt
Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron
Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins
"Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton
To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
"More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher
Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.