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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 cover

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815

Richard White

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781139495684
Genre
History
Topics
Native American-European relationsGreat Lakes colonial historyCultural accommodation and exchange

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