The boundaries between us : Natives and newcomers along the frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850

摘要: Although much has been written about the Old Northwest, "The Boundaries Between Us" fills a void in this historical literature by examining interaction between Euro-Americans and native peoples, their struggles to gain control of region its vast resources. Comprised twelve original essays, formulates comprehensive perspective on history significance contest for Northwest. The essays examine sociocultural contexts which natives newcomers lived, traded, negotiated, interacted, fought, delineating articulations power possibility, difference identity, violence war that shaped struggle. do not attempt present unified interpretation but, rather, focus both specific general topics, revisit reinterpret well-known events, underscore how cultural, political, ideological antagonisms divided inhabitants from newcomers. Together, these thoughtful analyses offer broad nearly century contact, interaction, conflict, displacement. This volume promises be great importance unfolding discussions early America, frontier, cultural interaction.