George Galphin and the Transformation of the Georgia-South Carolina Backcountry
The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis of this work is that his life and career helped to shape the history of the backcountry of Georgia and South Carolina in three distinct ways. First, his support of a for profit Indian trade (as opposed to a for stability trade) shaped Anglo-Indian relations between frontier settlers and their Indian neighbors. Ultimately, men like Galphin helped the United States move away from the British policy towards Native Americans in favor of a uniquely Am…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-0174-3
- EAN: 9781498501743
- Produktnummer: 21852969
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'306 KB
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By Michael P. Morris
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