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Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151015155
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The First Frontier written by Scott Weidensaul and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clement Zwingli Weiser
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Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser, the German Pioneer, Patriot, and Patron of Two Races written by Clement Zwingli Weiser and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clement Zwingli Weiser
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Life of J. C. Weiser, the German Pioneer, Patriot and Patron of Two Races written by Clement Zwingli Weiser and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172844X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Deadly Medicine written by Peter C. Mancall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important work of scholarship, with powerful, concise, and objective insights into the complicated history of alcohol use among Native American peoples. Impeccably researched, cogently argued and clearly written, Peter Mancall's book is both an eye-opener for the lay reader and an invaluable resource for the expert."— Michael Dorris, author of The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America. Mancall recounts how English settlers quickly found a market for alcohol among the Indians, and traffic in rum became a prominent source of revenue for the British Empire. In spite of the colonists' growing awareness that some Indians abused alcohol and that drinking threatened the stability of countless Indian villages already decimated by European diseases, they expanded the liquor trade into virtually every Indian community from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. In response, Indians created one of the most important temperance movements in American history, a movement that was nevertheless unable to halt the lucrative commerce. The author follows the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the colonial distributors and on to the Indian consumers in the eastern woodlands. To discover why Indians participated in the trade and why they experienced such a powerful desire for alcohol, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and reexamines the colonial era as a time when Indians were forming new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Finally, Mancall compares Indian drinking in New France and New Spain with that in the British colonies. Forever shattering the stereotype of the drunken Indian, Mancall offers a powerful indictment of English participation in the liquor trade and a new awareness or the trade's tragic cost for the American Indians.
Author : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Collections written by Historical Society of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania written by Historical Society of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764).- v. 2. John Long's journal, 1768-1782.- v. 3. André Michaux's travels into Kentucky 1793-96. François André Michaux's Travels west of Alleghany Mountains, 1802. Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a tour northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.- v. 4. Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809).- v. 5. Bradbbury's Travels in the interior of America, 1809-1811.- v. 6. Brackenridge's Journal up the Missouri, 1811. Franchère's voyage to Northwest coast, 1811-1814.- v. 7. Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813.- v. 8. Buttrick's Voyages, 1812-1819. Evans's Pedestrious tour, 1818.- v. 9. Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820.- v. 10. Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods Two years' residence, 1820-21.- v. 11. Part written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lois Mulkearn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297536X
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book George Mercer Papers written by Lois Mulkearn and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer was a lieutenant and later captain of the First Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War, and a land surveyor. He served as agent for the Ohio Company in England. In this book, Lois Mulkearn interprets George Mercer's documents on the activities of the Ohio Company.Through the eyes of Indians, French, and English we see the political and military efforts to control the vast area of the Ohio frontier, and witness treaties signed at Logstown, and those between Pennsylvania and the Weas and Piankashaws in 1740. Among Mercer's other papers are directions for laying out the first British town to be called "Saltsburg" at present day McKees Rocks, outside Pittsburgh. With this extensive collection, Mulkearn enlightens our knowledge of colonial history and the western frontier.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Senate documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Historical Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1390 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania written by Historical Society of Pennsylvania and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records cover Philadelphia and Pennsylvania unless otherwise noted.
Author : Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of American Historical Societies written by Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilbur R. Jacobs
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789126754
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Diplomacy and Indian Gifts written by Wilbur R. Jacobs and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of gifts to the Indians is an attempt to illuminate a hitherto almost obscure factor in the Colonial westward movement. These “presents,” comprising such eighteenth-century items as fabrics, hardware, munitions, food, toys, jewelry, clothing, wampum, and liquors, were a potent factor in the complex diplomatic history of Indian politics along the old Northwest frontier. Thousands of pounds sterling were expended both by the French and by the English in observing this old Indian custom that was so necessary to Indian diplomacy. Indeed, the civilizing influence of this concomitant of Western culture reached ahead of the fur trade far into the wilderness to the Mississippi Valley. These so-called presents also served as a measure of compensation for the vast areas of virgin forest that were bought by the English. The French competed with the British in securing the friendship of the powerful Indian confederacies, which, even as late as 1750, held the balance of power in North America. During the years 1748-1763, it became the policy of the colonies bordering the Ohio and Northwest frontiers to “brighten the chain of friendship” by giving presents to such influential “nations” as the members of the Iroquoian confederacy. Moreover, in some cases the Indians became so accustomed to these frequent outlays of free merchandise that they came to be almost completely dependent upon European goods.—Wilbur R. Jacobs
Author : Timothy J. Shannon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488184
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire written by Timothy J. Shannon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years, Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial delegates' British cousins. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism wielded by a distant authority.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.F. Libbie & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by C.F. Libbie & Co and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
