TY  - BOOK
N2  - "In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia J. Van Zandt argues that the pursuit of alliances was a widespread multiethnic quest that shaped the early colonial American world in fundamentally important ways. These alliances could produce surprising results, with Europeans sometimes subservient to more powerful Native American nations, even as native nations were sometimes clients and tributaries of European colonists. Spanning nine European colonies - including English, Dutch, and Swedish colonies - as well as many Native American nations and a community of transplanted Africans, Brothers among Nations enlists a broad array of sources to illuminate the degree to which European colonists were often among the most vulnerable people in North America and the centrality of Native Americans to the success of the European colonial project."--Jacket.
AB  - "In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia J. Van Zandt argues that the pursuit of alliances was a widespread multiethnic quest that shaped the early colonial American world in fundamentally important ways. These alliances could produce surprising results, with Europeans sometimes subservient to more powerful Native American nations, even as native nations were sometimes clients and tributaries of European colonists. Spanning nine European colonies - including English, Dutch, and Swedish colonies - as well as many Native American nations and a community of transplanted Africans, Brothers among Nations enlists a broad array of sources to illuminate the degree to which European colonists were often among the most vulnerable people in North America and the centrality of Native Americans to the success of the European colonial project."--Jacket.
T1  - Brothers among nations :the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - Oxford ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean.
CN  - E77
CN  - E77
PB  - Oxford University Press,
PP  - Oxford ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2008.
ID  - 455289
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Indians of North America
SN  - 9780195181241 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0195181247 (alk. paper)
TI  - Brothers among nations :the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip087/2007051112.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip087/2007051112.html
ER  -