Setting all the captives free : capture, adjustment, and recollection in Allegheny country / / Ian K. Steele

• Autore: Steele Ian Kenneth
• Pubblicazione: Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (705 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.2/6
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Wars - 1750-1815 - Prisoners and prisons
• Soggetto geografico: United States History French and Indian War, 1754-1763 Prisoners and prisons
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1 : Captured in "Peacetime". Taken along Warriors' Paths -- Taking Traders, 1745-54 -- Colonial Soldiers Take Captives, 1754 -- ; Part 2 : Captured in War. Taken in Raids, 1754-59 -- Taken in Sieges and Surrenders, 1756-58 -- Taken in Battles, 1755-59 -- Indian War with Traders and Soldiers, 1763-65 -- Indian War with White Settlers, 1763-6 -- ; Part 3 : Captivity, Conversion, and Escape. Trails into Captivity -- Allegheny White Indians -- Escaped -- The Bereft -- ; Part 4 : Setting all the Captives Free. Diplomacy of Gift Exchange, 1756-62 -- Redeemed and Exchanged, 1745-62 -- Forced Return of Captives -- Imperial Moment, 1765 -- ; Part 5 : Afterwards and Afterwods. Restoring and Revising Identities -- Captivating Accounts, 1755-1826 -- Conclusion -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Appendix: Named Captives Taken on the Allegheny Frontier.
• Sommario/riassunto: Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.
• Titolo autorizzato: Setting all the captives free
• ISBN: 0-7735-8990-2; 0-7735-8989-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790856103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; ; 71.