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Autore |
Ramsey William L. <1961-> |
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Titolo |
The Yamasee War [[electronic resource] ] : a study of culture, economy, and conflict in the colonial South / / William L. Ramsey |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-24146-6 |
9786611241469 |
0-8032-3744-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Yamasee War, S.C., 1715-1716 |
Yamasee Indians - Wars |
Yamasee Indians - Commerce |
Enslaved Indians - South Carolina - History |
South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-297) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Introduction: The Problems; Part 1: Tinder; 1. Carolinians in Indian Country; 2. Indian Slaves in the Carolina Low Country; Part 2: Spark; 3. Market Influence; 4. Trade Regulation and the Breakdown of Diplomacy; Part 3: Fire; 5. The Heart of the Alliance; 6. Auxiliary Confederates; Part 4: Ash; 7. Monsters and Men; 8. New Patterns of Exchange and Diplomacy; Conclusion: New Problems; Appendix: The Huspah King's Letter to Charles Craven; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Yamasee War was a violent and bloody conflict between southeastern American Indian tribes and English colonists in South Carolina from 1715 to 1718. Ramsey's discussion of the war itself goes far beyond the coastal conflicts between Yamasees and Carolinians, however, and evaluates the regional diplomatic issues that drew Indian nations as far distant as the Choctaws in modern-day Mississippi into a far-flung anti-English alliance. In tracing the decline of Indian slavery within South Carolina during and after the war, the book reveals the shift in white racial ideology that responded to wa |
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