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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480400903321

Autore

Inman Natalie Rishay

Titolo

Brothers and Friends : Kinship in Early America / / Natalie R. Inman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , [2017]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©[2017]

ISBN

0-8203-5110-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Early American places

Disciplina

306.850973

Soggetti

Social networks - United States - History

Chickasaw Indians - Kinship

Cherokee Indians - Kinship

Families - United States - History - 19th century

Families - United States - History - 18th century

Kinship - United States - History - 19th century

Kinship - United States - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comparing families in cultural and political borderlands -- Founding networks, 1740-1765 -- Militant families : kinship in the American revolution --Ongoing warfare : Indian resistance and accommodation -- The Donelsons : social, political, and economic expansion on the frontier -- Family strategies and "civilization" -- Creek War family networks -- Kinship networks and evolving concepts of nationhood -- Piecing together a new society from the remnants of the old.