Author: Samuel Gardner Drake
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Tragedies of the Wilderness ; Or, True and Authentic Narratives of Captives, who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians from the Various Frontier Settlements of the United States, from the Earliest to the Present Time...
Author: Samuel Gardner Drake
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Tragedies of the Wilderness
Author: Samuel G. Drake
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Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Violent Appetites
Author: Carla Cevasco
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America “In this bold and original study, Cevasco punctures the myth of colonial America as a land of plenty. This is a book about the past with lessons for our time of food insecurity.”—Peter C. Mancall, author of The Trials of Thomas Morton Carla Cevasco reveals the disgusting, violent history of hunger in the context of the colonial invasion of early northeastern North America. Locked in constant violence throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Native Americans and English and French colonists faced the pain of hunger, the fear of encounters with taboo foods, and the struggle for resources. Their mealtime encounters with rotten meat, foraged plants, and even human flesh would transform the meanings of hunger across cultures. By foregrounding hunger and its effects in the early American world, Cevasco emphasizes the fragility of the colonial project, and the strategies of resilience that Native peoples used to endure both scarcity and the colonial invasion. In doing so, the book proposes an interdisciplinary framework for studying scarcity, expanding the field of food studies beyond simply the study of plenty.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America “In this bold and original study, Cevasco punctures the myth of colonial America as a land of plenty. This is a book about the past with lessons for our time of food insecurity.”—Peter C. Mancall, author of The Trials of Thomas Morton Carla Cevasco reveals the disgusting, violent history of hunger in the context of the colonial invasion of early northeastern North America. Locked in constant violence throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Native Americans and English and French colonists faced the pain of hunger, the fear of encounters with taboo foods, and the struggle for resources. Their mealtime encounters with rotten meat, foraged plants, and even human flesh would transform the meanings of hunger across cultures. By foregrounding hunger and its effects in the early American world, Cevasco emphasizes the fragility of the colonial project, and the strategies of resilience that Native peoples used to endure both scarcity and the colonial invasion. In doing so, the book proposes an interdisciplinary framework for studying scarcity, expanding the field of food studies beyond simply the study of plenty.
Narratives of Captivity Among the Indians of North America
Author: Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library)
Publisher: Chicago : Newberry Library
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Category : Captivity narratives
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : Newberry Library
ISBN:
Category : Captivity narratives
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Unredeemed Captive
Author: John Demos
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779069X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779069X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.
Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Author: Lisa Voigt
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity--one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience. Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity--one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience. Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic.
Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.).
Author: James Hammond Trumbull
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George Brinley
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publications of the Newberry Library
Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Library ... Comprising American History, ... Indians
Author: E. A. Carré
Publisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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