Description: "No recent work of history...has presented such a distinctive―and beautifully resonant―authorial voice."―John Demos, Yale UniversityThe colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh―groups that rarely intermingled in Europe―were thrown together when they confronted the American countryside. Rather than embracing the inescapable and ever-increasing diversity, the European settler communities had their very existence threatened by the tensions and fears among their own groups. Only through "Indian-hating"―in both military and rhetorical forms―could the splintered colonists find a common ground.In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver gives us an astonishingly vivid picture of eighteenth-century America. He straddles cultural history, political history, social history, and ethnohistory to offer groundbreaking insights into the seminal forces that continue to shape the United States today. 15 illustrations.
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Book Title: Our Savage Neighbours : How Indian War Transformed Early America
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2007
Topic: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Asia / India & South Asia
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 26.6 Oz
Item Length: 1 in
Author: Peter Silver
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Hardcover
