The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 /

The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	White, Richard, 1947-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Description:	xvi, 544 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in North American Indian history
Subject:	Algonquian Indians -- History. Indians of North America -- Great Lakes Region -- History. Algonquian Indians. Algonquian Indians -- First contact with Europeans. Indians of North America. Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans. Great Lakes Region -- History. Great Lakes Region. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1183186

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ISBN:	052137104X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Refugees: a world made of fragments
2. The middle ground
3. The fur trade
4. The alliance
5. Republicans and rebels
6. The clash of empires
7. Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground
8. The British alliance
9. The contest of villagers
10. Confederacies
11. The politics of benevolence
Epilogue. Assimilation and otherness
Index