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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846di R. Douglas Hurt
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book was a difficult read in the sense that it was hard to read about what happened to the Native American peoples. It's one thing to have heard about The Trail of Tears, but it's entirely something else to read first-hand accounts that describe the horrors with such phrases as, "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew." Most of this book reads matter-of-factly, which gets dry at times, but I encouraged myself to get through the whole thing. The United States doesn't have the best history in the world, and this book exists to remind readers that it didn't have to be this way. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This synthesis of Indian-white relations west of the Appalachians from the end of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the Mexican War is not simply a story of whites versus Indians. The term whites encompassed British, Spanish, and American settlers and governments, and the hundreds of Indian tribes who opposed them were no more unified than their European colonizers. The author focuses on relations among the British, the Spanish, the Americans, and Indian tribes in territories claimed by more than one of these groups, with particular emphasis on Indian tribes' pursuit of trade, peace, and guarantees of their land. Self-interest motivated all the players in these complex interactions, and when irreconcilable differences inevitably resulted these were settled by force. The broad chronological and geographical scope of this volume encompasses British efforts to enforce new settlement policies after their defeat of the French, the Spanish system of missions and presidios, trade in the Columbia River basin of the Pacific Northwest, the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, and the establishment of a strong military presence to defend the trade routes of the Great Plains. The author's clear explanations of complex negotiations over trade, land, and policy among countless conflicting groups during a period of transition will be invaluable for students and for the interested general reader. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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