Trade, land, power: the struggle for eastern North America

Abstract

Introduction PART I. NATIVE POWER AND EUROPEAN TRADE Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch Chapter 3. Europe be not Proud, nor America Discouraged: Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers PART II. EUROPEAN POWER AND NATIVE LAND Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn's Letter to the Kings of the Indians Chapter 8. No Savage Should Inherit: Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence Chapter 11. Believing that Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food: A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic Notes Index Acknowledgments