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1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : maps |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A "friend" and a "brother": gender, family, and diplomacy -- "I am a man and a warrior": native and British rhetorics of manhood and warfare -- "To protect them and their wives and children": women and war -- Guns and garters: men, women, and the trade -- "To stay amongst them by a marriage": the politics and domestics of intermarriage -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Maps -- The southeast circa 1715 -- The southeast in the 1740s -- The southeast on the eve of the American Revolution -- Cherokee settlements, mid-eighteenth century -- Creek settlements, mid-eighteenth century. |
| Summary |
"The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems. In a region in which the balance of power between multiple players remained uncertain for many decades, British and Native leaders turned to concepts of gender and family to create new diplomatic norms to govern interactions as they sought to construct and maintain working relationships. In Brothers Born of One Mother, Michelle LeMaster addresses the question of how differing cultural attitudes toward gender influenced Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial Southeast. |
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As one of the most fundamental aspects of culture, gender had significant implications for military and diplomatic relations. Understood differently by each side, notions of kinship and proper masculine and feminine behavior wielded during negotiations had the power to either strengthen or disrupt alliances. The collision of different cultural expectations of masculine behavior and men's relationships to and responsibilities for women and children became significant areas of discussion and contention. Native American and British leaders frequently discussed issues of manhood (especially in the context of warfare), the treatment of women and children, and intermarriage. Women themselves could either enhance or upset relations through their active participation in diplomacy, war, and trade. |
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Leaders invoked gendered metaphors and fictive kinship relations in their discussions, and by evaluating their rhetoric, Brothers Born of One Mother investigates the intercultural conversations about gender that shaped Anglo-Indian diplomacy. LeMaster's study contributes importantly to historians' understanding of the role of cultural differences in intergroup contact and investigates how gender became part of the ideology of European conquest in North America, providing a unique window into the process of colonization in America."--Pub. desc. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Masculinity -- Southern States -- History.
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Masculinity. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Femininity -- Southern States -- History.
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Femininity. |
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Indians, Treatment of -- Southern States -- History.
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Indians, Treatment of. |
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British -- Southern States -- History.
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British. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: LeMaster, Michelle, 1970- Brothers born of one mother. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012 9780813932415 (DLC) 2011035010 (OCoLC)748941739 |
| ISBN |
0813932424 (electronic book) |
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9780813932422 (electronic book) |
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9780813932415 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0813932416 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613655097 |
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