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The memory of all ancient customs [[electronic resource] ] : Native American diplomacy in the colonial Hudson Valley / / Tom Arne Midtrød



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Autore: Midtrød Tom Arne <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The memory of all ancient customs [[electronic resource] ] : Native American diplomacy in the colonial Hudson Valley / / Tom Arne Midtrød Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
Disciplina: 323.1197
Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Indians of North America - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) - Government relations
Indians of North America - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) - Politics and government - 17th century
Indians of North America - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) - Politics and government - 18th century
Soggetto geografico: Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Ethnic relations
New York (State) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Politics and Society -- 1. Ties That Bound -- 2. Patterns of Diplomacy -- 3. Struggling with the Dutch -- 4. Living with the English -- 5. Friends and Enemies -- 6. In the Shadow of the Longhouse -- 7. Change and Continuity -- 8. War and Disunity -- 9. Disaster and Dispersal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley-including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians-from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on how members of different Native groups interacted with one another, this book places Indians rather than Europeans on center stage.Midtrød uncovers a vast and multifaceted Native American world that was largely hidden from the eyes of the Dutch and English colonists who gradually displaced the indigenous peoples of the Hudson Valley. In The Memory of All Ancient Customs he establishes the surprising extent to which numerically small and militarily weak Indian groups continued to understand the world around them in their own terms, and as often engaged- sometimes violently, sometimes cooperatively-with neighboring peoples to the east (New England Indians) and west (the Iroquois ) as with the Dutch and English colonizers. Even as they fell more and more under the domination of powerful outsiders-Iroquois as well as Dutch and English-the Hudson Valley Indians were resilient, maintaining or adapting features of their traditional diplomatic ties until the moment of their final dispossession during the American Revolutionary War.
Titolo autorizzato: The memory of all ancient customs  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8014-6459-5
0-8014-6412-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779183803321
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