The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744Francis 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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Contents
TRANSITORY CONDOMINIUM I | 3 |
Conquest by decreeThe myths revivalContradictory traditions | 10 |
A Mixing of Peoples | 25 |
An Iron Dutch Chain | 47 |
Logistics of Intersocietal Commerce | 58 |
The Iroquoian Beaver Wars | 84 |
Odd Man Out I 13 | 113 |
A Silver English Chain | 145 |
Mending Chain | 249 |
A Vise Made in Europe | 275 |
Desperation in Iroquoia | 289 |
A New Fire | 309 |
Chain into Fetters 3 25 | 345 |
Conflict and Accommodation | 367 |
A A council at Onondaga as reported by Conrad Weiser in 1743 | 379 |
B Documents of the Walking Purchase | 398 |
Expansion and Reaction | 172 |
lo They flourish and we decrease I 86 | 193 |
Permutations 2 | 217 |
A Link Lost | 223 |
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| 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 / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) |
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