Studies in North American Indian History: The Middle Ground (Hardcover)

from ScoutJ

Much of American history presents the view of Native Americans as the conquered peoples in a linear story that begins with the landing of Columbus in the Caribbean and ends with the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee. Richard White seeks to reframe that story, at least in the Great Lakes region. To ...

from AJBraithwaite

I admit that I didn't read this volume from cover to cover - I had it on interlibrary loan and it was due back before I had time to do it justice, but I learnt a lot from the chapters I did read, particularly about the period immediately after the Iroquoian defeat of the peoples living in what is...

from walbat

If you've seen the 1992 Michael Mann movie, Last of the Mohicans (featuring Daniel Day Lewis with "rock star hair," as one reviewer at the time put it), like me you may have been intrigued by the depiction of a "multicultural" society in western New York in the mid-18th century. That is, whites a...

from DarthDeverell

In The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, Richard White argues, "The middle ground is the place in between: in between cultures, peoples, and in between empires and the nonstate world of villages. It is a place where many of the North American s...

from bfertig

Slogged my way through The middle ground to finally finish it and post a 977 for the Dewey Decimal Challenge. This was an interesting book, and actually many parts of it read very quickly, provided I was OK with not know exactly who the players were, where the action was, or to some extent what w...