The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation
2018
Book
"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780190652166
- 0190652160
Description: xviii, 621 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
Other Title: First President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-580) and index.
Contents:
- Learning curves
- Virginia's Indian country
- The Ohio Company and the Ohio Country
- Into Tanaghrisson's world
- Tanaghrisson's war
- Braddock and the limits of empire
- Frontier defense and a Cherokee alliance
- Frontier advance and a Cherokee war
- The other revolution
- Confronting the Indian boundary
- "A good deal of land."
- The question of Indian allies
- Town destroyer
- Killing Crawford
- Building a nation on Indian land
- The first President and the first Americans
- An Indian policy for the new nation
- Courting McGillivray
- The greatest Indian victory
- Philadelphia Indian diplomacy
- Achieving empire
- Transforming Indian lives
- A death and a non-death.
LCCN: 2017028686
Control Number: 2610386
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]Subjects:
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
- Indigenous peoples -- Wars -- United States -- 1750-1815.
- United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Relations with Indigenous peoples.