Brothers among nations : the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 / Cynthia J. Van Zandt.
Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean.
2008
E77 .V25 2008 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title Brothers among nations : the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 / Cynthia J. Van Zandt.
Author Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean.
ISBN 9780195181241 (alk. paper)
0195181247 (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description ix, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number E77 .V25 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48/273009032
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-233) and index.
Linked Resources Table of contents only
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Mapping the peoples of the world: geography, chorography, and intercultural alliances
Laying the groundwork for alliances: language, maps, and intercultural suspicion
"You called him father": fictive kinship and tributary alliances in Tsenacommacah/Virginia
Alliance making and the struggle for the soul of Plymouth Colony
Captain Claiborne's alliance
Alliances of necessity: fictive kinship and Manhattan's diaspora African community
Nations intertwined: alliances and the Susquehannocks' geography of North America
Epilogue: Captain Claiborne's lost isle.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export