03946nam 2200649Ia 450 991078696540332120230803030232.00-674-07562-50-674-07560-910.4159/harvard.9780674075603(CKB)2670000000367949(EBL)3301309(SSID)ssj0000886090(PQKBManifestationID)11493727(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886090(PQKBWorkID)10816633(PQKB)10772143(MiAaPQ)EBC3301309(DE-B1597)209755(OCoLC)844923095(OCoLC)853236662(OCoLC)999360213(DE-B1597)9780674075603(Au-PeEL)EBL3301309(CaPaEBR)ebr10713636(EXLCZ)99267000000036794920121015d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u|||txtccrThe four deaths of Acorn Whistler[electronic resource] telling stories in colonial America /Joshua PikerCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Pressc20131 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-04686-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Prologue: April 1, 1752 --Introduction: Acorn Whistler and the Storytellers --I. IMPERIAL --1. The Governor --2. The Governor's Story --II. NATIONAL --3. The Emperor --4. The Emperor's Story --III. LOCAL --5. The Family and Community --6. The Family and Community's Story --IV. COLONIAL --7. The Colonists --8. The Colonists' Story --Epilogue: June 5, 1753 --Abbreviations --Notes --Acknowledgments --IndexWho was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility.Cherokee IndiansViolence againstSouth CarolinaCharlestonCreek IndiansKings and rulersBiographyGreat BritainColoniesAmericaAdministrationGreat BritainColoniesAmericaHistory18th centurySouthern StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Cherokee IndiansViolence againstCreek IndiansKings and rulers975.004/97385BPiker Joshua Aaron1512543MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786965403321The four deaths of Acorn Whistler3773855UNINA01583nam0 22003853i 450 RMG017850020251003044339.020110420d2008 ||||0itac50 baitaitaitz01i xxxe z01nz01ncRDAcarrierA tutti i membri della famiglia umanatesti presentati da Ugo Villanicon una nota di Guido Giuffrè e tre tecniche miste di Francesco BalsamoMilanoGiuffrè[2008]278 p., [3] c. di tav.ill.25 cmIn cop.: Per il 60. anniversario della Dichiarazione universaleA tutti i membri della famiglia umana.UBS001291866508Diritti umaniFIRCFIC169700E341.481DIRITTI FONDAMENTALI DELL'UOMO21Diritti dell'uomoDiritti dell'umanitàDiritti fondamentaliDiritti umaniDiritti dell'uomoDiritti umaniDiritti dell'umanitàDiritti umaniDiritti fondamentaliGiuffrè, GuidoCFIV022204Villani, UgoCFIV048051Balsamo, Francesco <1969- >MILV269670ITIT-00000020110420IT-BN0095 NAP 01D $RMG0178500Biblioteca Centralizzata di Ateneo 01D (C) 21 409 01C 0800214095 VMA 1 v.Y 2013011720130117 01A tutti i membri della famiglia umana66508UNISANNIO