The Middle Ground

Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815

By:

Richard White

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in North American Indian History

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An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, 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. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.

Author Biography:

Richard White holds the Margaret Byrne Professorship in American History at Stanford University, California and is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading scholars in three related fields: the American West, Native American history and environmental history. Professor White is the author of five books. The first edition of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (1991) was named a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Among other honors, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

Release date NZ

November 1st, 2010

Author

Richard White

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

Anniversary edition

Illustrations

4 Tables, unspecified; 4 Maps; 14 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

576

Series

Studies in North American Indian History

Dimensions

152x229x27

ISBN-13

9780521183444

Product ID

9012267

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