03313oam 22006974a 450 991052468190332120240424230639.01-5017-1613-110.7591/9781501716133(CKB)4100000009669698(MiAaPQ)EBC5963595(OCoLC)1082297589(MdBmJHUP)muse75906(StDuBDS)EDZ0002252219(DE-B1597)527444(DE-B1597)9781501716133(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89071(EXLCZ)99410000000966969820190109d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNo Useless MouthWaging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution /Rachel B. HerrmannCornell University Press2019Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2019.©2019.1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)Cornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2019.1-5017-1611-5 1-5017-1612-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered -- Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America -- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North -- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South -- Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from restrictive food laws in Nova Scotia -- Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy -- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone -- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight."Argues that Native American and formerly enslaved communities lost the fight against hunger because white officials in the United States, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms"--Provided by publisher.Cornell scholarship online.African AmericansFoodHistory18th centuryIndians of North AmericaFoodHistory18th centuryFood securitySierra LeoneHistory18th centuryFood securityNova ScotiaHistory18th centuryFood securityUnited StatesHistory18th centurySierra LeoneHistoryTo 1896Nova ScotiaHistory1763-1867United StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783African AmericansUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783IndiansElectronic books. hunger, food, diplomacy, enslaved people, victual warfare, victual imperialism.African AmericansFoodHistoryIndians of North AmericaFoodHistoryFood securityHistoryFood securityHistoryFood securityHistory973.3Herrmann Rachel B.1057658MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524681903321No Useless Mouth2493363UNINA