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Author White, Richard, 1947- author.

Title The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 / Richard White.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Edition Twentieth anniversary edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 544 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Studies in North American Indian history
Cambridge studies in North American Indian history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Refugees: a world made of fragments -- The middle ground -- The fur trade -- The alliance -- Republicans and rebels -- The clash of empires -- Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground --The British alliance -- The contest of villagers -- Confederacies -- The politics of benevolence -- Epilogue: assimilation and otherness.
Summary "An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Algonquian Indians -- Great Lakes Region (North America) -- History.
Algonquian Indians.
History.
Algonquian Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Algonquian Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
Indians of North America -- Great Lakes Region (North America) -- History.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples.
Great Lakes Region (North America) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: White, Richard, 1947- Middle ground. 20th anniversary ed. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107005624 (DLC) 2010034929 (OCoLC)659305705
ISBN 9780511990663 (electronic book)
0511990669 (electronic book)
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0511992629 (electronic book)
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051197695X (electronic book)
9780511988851 (ebook)
0511988850 (ebook)
9781107005624 (cloth)
1107005620 (cloth)
9780521183444 (paperback)
0521183448 (paperback)
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