Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh-groups that rarely intermingled in Europe-were thrown together when they confronted the American countryside. Rather than embracing the inescapable and ever-increasing diversity, the European settler communities had their very existence threatened by the tensions and fears among their own groups. Only through Indian-hating-in both military and rhetorical forms-could the splintered colonists find…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-06248-9
- EAN: 9780393062489
- Produktnummer: 16265287
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 406 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.6 cm x D3.4 cm 757 g
- Gewicht: 757
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Peter Silver is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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