The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744

Francis Jennings

W. W. Norton & Company, 1984 - History - 438 pages

Francis Jennings, former director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian, is the author of "The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest, " a highly acclaimed account of the first relationships between Europeans and Americans, and "Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America." These books are also published in Norton paperback editions.

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As the bibliographical data indicates, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire is a continuation of Francis Jennings's The Invasion of America, one of the definitive works in in the Hegelian antithesis portion ...

Contents

• Distinctions in Deed and Thought: 3
• An Empire of Convenience: 10
• A Mixing of Peoples: 25
• An Iron Dutch Chain: 47
• Logistics of Intersocietal Commerce: 58
• The Iroquoian Beaver Wars: 84
• Odd Man Out: 113
• A Silver English Chain: 145
• Expansion and Reaction: 172
• They flourish and we decrease: 186
• Permutations: 214
• 1i A Link Lost: 223
• Mending Chain: 249
• A Vise Made in Europe: 275
• Desperation in Iroquoia: 289
• A New Fire: 309
• Chain into Fetters: 325
• Summit and Slope: 347
• Conflict and Accommodation: 367
• A A council at Onondaga as reported by Conrad Weiser in 1743: 388
• On the undoing of history: 398
• Bibliography: 407
• Index: 429

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-->Francis Jennings-->, author of the foreword, is well known for histories of northeastern Indians.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744
• Author: Francis Jennings
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984
• ISBN: 0393303020, 9780393303025
• Length: 438 pages
• Subjects: History / Native American; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT); Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies