04124nam 2200745 a 450 991045293420332120200520144314.01-283-89845-40-8122-0851-X10.9783/9780812208511(CKB)2550000000707674(OCoLC)822655785(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642228(SSID)ssj0000787065(PQKBManifestationID)11503936(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787065(PQKBWorkID)10821787(PQKB)11719506(MiAaPQ)EBC3441893(MdBmJHUP)muse24411(DE-B1597)449619(OCoLC)1004881374(DE-B1597)9780812208511(Au-PeEL)EBL3441893(CaPaEBR)ebr10642228(CaONFJC)MIL421095(EXLCZ)99255000000070767420100524d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImperial entanglements[electronic resource] Iroquois change and persistence on the frontiers of empire /Gail D. MacLeitchPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20111 online resource (341 p.) Early American StudiesEarly American studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4281-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Maintaining their ground -- The ascension of empire -- Trade, land, and labor -- Gendered encounters -- Indian and other -- Economic adversity and adjustment -- The iroquois in British North America.Imperial Entanglements chronicles the history of the Haudenosaunee Iroquois in the eighteenth century, a dramatic period during which they became further entangled in a burgeoning market economy, participated in imperial warfare, and encountered a waxing British Empire. Rescuing the Seven Years' War era from the shadows of the American Revolution and moving away from the political focus that dominates Iroquois studies, historian Gail D. MacLeitch offers a fresh examination of Iroquois experience in economic and cultural terms. As land sellers, fur hunters, paid laborers, consumers, and commercial farmers, the Iroquois helped to create a new economic culture that connected the New York hinterland to a transatlantic world of commerce. By doing so they exposed themselves to both opportunities and risks.As their economic practices changed, so too did Iroquois ways of making sense of gender and ethnic differences. MacLeitch examines the formation of new cultural identities as men and women negotiated challenges to long-established gendered practices and confronted and cocreated a new racialized discourses of difference. On the frontiers of empire, Indians, as much as European settlers, colonial officials, and imperial soldiers, directed the course of events. However, as MacLeitch also demonstrates, imperial entanglements with a rising British power intent on securing native land, labor, and resources ultimately worked to diminish Iroquois economic and political sovereignty.Early American studies.Iroquois IndiansHistory18th centuryIroquois IndiansGovernment relationsSeven Years' War, 1756-1763Indians of North AmericaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775BritishNorth AmericaHistory18th centuryUnited StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Electronic books.Iroquois IndiansHistoryIroquois IndiansGovernment relations.Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.Indians of North AmericaHistoryBritishHistory973.2MacLeitch Gail D1037772MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452934203321Imperial entanglements2458936UNINA