04903nam 2200781 450 991078713990332120200520144314.00-8122-2363-20-8122-9019-410.9783/9780812290196(CKB)3710000000274869(EBL)3442436(SSID)ssj0001378592(PQKBManifestationID)11890609(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378592(PQKBWorkID)11340830(PQKB)10375968(OCoLC)893600192(MdBmJHUP)muse35468(DE-B1597)463545(OCoLC)979748949(DE-B1597)9780812290196(Au-PeEL)EBL3442436(CaPaEBR)ebr10953820(CaONFJC)MIL682555(OCoLC)932313322(MiAaPQ)EBC3442436(EXLCZ)99371000000027486920141021h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrLenape country Delaware Valley society before William Penn /Jean R. Soderlund1st ed.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2015.©20151 online resource (264 p.)Early American StudiesIncludes index.1-322-51273-6 0-8122-4647-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Note on the Text --Introduction --1. A Free People, Subject to No One --2. Controlling the Land through Massacre and War, 1626–38 --3. Managing a Tenuous Peace, 1638–54 --4. Allies against the Dutch, 1654–64 --5. Allies against the English, 1664–73 --6. Protecting Sovereignty amid Wars, 1673–80 --7. Negotiating Penn’s Colony, 1681–1715 --8. Strategies of Survival and Revenge --Conclusion --Note on Methodology --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the next fifty years as Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English colonists settled the Delaware Valley. The European outposts did not approach the size and strength of those in Virginia, New England, and New Netherland. Even after thousands of Quakers arrived in West New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the late 1670's and '80's, the region successfully avoided war for another seventy-five years. Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After Swanendael, the Natives, Swedes, and Finns avoided war by focusing on trade and forging strategic alliances in such events as the Dutch conquest, the Mercurius affair, the Long Swede conspiracy, and English attempts to seize land. Drawing on a wide range of sources, author Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that the hallmarks of Delaware Valley society—commitment to personal freedom, religious liberty, peaceful resolution of conflict, and opposition to hierarchical government—began in the Delaware Valley not with Quaker ideals or the leadership of William Penn but with the Lenape Indians, whose culture played a key role in shaping Delaware Valley society. The first comprehensive account of the Lenape Indians and their encounters with European settlers before Pennsylvania's founding, Lenape Country places Native culture at the center of this part of North America.Early American studies.Delaware IndiansDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)History17th centuryDelaware IndiansDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)Government relationsHistory17th centuryIndians of North AmericaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)History17th centuryDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)Ethnic relationsHistory17th centuryDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)Social conditions17th centuryAmerican History.American Studies.Native American Studies.Delaware IndiansHistoryDelaware IndiansGovernment relationsHistoryIndians of North AmericaHistory974.9Soderlund Jean R.1947-1545844MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787139903321Lenape country3800981UNINA