LEADER 04903nam 2200781 450 001 9910787139903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-2363-2 010 $a0-8122-9019-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290196 035 $a(CKB)3710000000274869 035 $a(EBL)3442436 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001378592 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11890609 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378592 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11340830 035 $a(PQKB)10375968 035 $a(OCoLC)893600192 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35468 035 $a(DE-B1597)463545 035 $a(OCoLC)979748949 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290196 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442436 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10953820 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682555 035 $a(OCoLC)932313322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442436 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000274869 100 $a20141021h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLenape country $eDelaware Valley society before William Penn /$fJean R. Soderlund 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 1 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-51273-6 311 $a0-8122-4647-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on the Text --$tIntroduction --$t1. A Free People, Subject to No One --$t2. Controlling the Land through Massacre and War, 1626?38 --$t3. Managing a Tenuous Peace, 1638?54 --$t4. Allies against the Dutch, 1654?64 --$t5. Allies against the English, 1664?73 --$t6. Protecting Sovereignty amid Wars, 1673?80 --$t7. Negotiating Penn?s Colony, 1681?1715 --$t8. Strategies of Survival and Revenge --$tConclusion --$tNote on Methodology --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the next fifty years as Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English colonists settled the Delaware Valley. The European outposts did not approach the size and strength of those in Virginia, New England, and New Netherland. Even after thousands of Quakers arrived in West New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the late 1670's and '80's, the region successfully avoided war for another seventy-five years. Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After Swanendael, the Natives, Swedes, and Finns avoided war by focusing on trade and forging strategic alliances in such events as the Dutch conquest, the Mercurius affair, the Long Swede conspiracy, and English attempts to seize land. Drawing on a wide range of sources, author Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that the hallmarks of Delaware Valley society?commitment to personal freedom, religious liberty, peaceful resolution of conflict, and opposition to hierarchical government?began in the Delaware Valley not with Quaker ideals or the leadership of William Penn but with the Lenape Indians, whose culture played a key role in shaping Delaware Valley society. The first comprehensive account of the Lenape Indians and their encounters with European settlers before Pennsylvania's founding, Lenape Country places Native culture at the center of this part of North America. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aDelaware Indians$zDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aDelaware Indians$zDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)$xGovernment relations$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aIndians of North America$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)$xSocial conditions$y17th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aNative American Studies. 615 0$aDelaware Indians$xHistory 615 0$aDelaware Indians$xGovernment relations$xHistory 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory 676 $a974.9 700 $aSoderlund$b Jean R.$f1947-$01545844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787139903321 996 $aLenape country$93800981 997 $aUNINA