The Resource Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America, Peter Silver
Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America, Peter Silver
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- Summary
- "Relying on original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had only rarely intermingled in Europe; and with religious revivals, war scares, and unease over immigration, the divisions between them only grew - until, with the arrival of the Seven Years' War, thousands of country people were forced to flee from Indian attack." "Playing politics with terror, rural settlers accused Quakers, politicians, and urban elites of turning their backs on the countryside and on their fellow "white people" (a term that until then had been used only by Indian tribes). Agitators carted scalped corpses into city squares and cried out for action. Writers, pamphleteers, politicians, religious leaders - all seized upon the horrors of Indian war, recycling its gruesome images to stoke the Europeans' collective alarm." "Silver reveals in vivid and often chilling detail how easily a rhetoric of fear can incite entire populations to violence. He shows how it was only through the shared experience of fearing and hating Indians that these Europeans, once irreconcilable, were finally united. Ironically, only in the face of a common enemy did they discover an ideal that would come to define the best in American life: ethnic and religious tolerance."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxvi, 406 p.
- Contents
-
- 1.
- Unsettled Country.
- p. 3
- 2.
- Fearing Indians.
- p. 39
- 3.
- Wounds Crying for Vengeance.
- p. 73
- 4.
- Seven Years' War and the White People.
- p. 95
- 5.
- Attacking Indians.
- p. 125
- 6.
- Spirit of Enterprise.
- p. 161
- 7.
- Quakers Unmasked.
- p. 191
- 8.
- Barbarism and the American Revolution.
- p. 227
- 9.
- Postwar That Wasn't.
- p. 261
- Isbn
- 9780393334906
- Label
- Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America
- Title
- Our savage neighbors
- Title remainder
- how Indian war transformed early America
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Silver
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Relying on original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had only rarely intermingled in Europe; and with religious revivals, war scares, and unease over immigration, the divisions between them only grew - until, with the arrival of the Seven Years' War, thousands of country people were forced to flee from Indian attack." "Playing politics with terror, rural settlers accused Quakers, politicians, and urban elites of turning their backs on the countryside and on their fellow "white people" (a term that until then had been used only by Indian tribes). Agitators carted scalped corpses into city squares and cried out for action. Writers, pamphleteers, politicians, religious leaders - all seized upon the horrors of Indian war, recycling its gruesome images to stoke the Europeans' collective alarm." "Silver reveals in vivid and often chilling detail how easily a rhetoric of fear can incite entire populations to violence. He shows how it was only through the shared experience of fearing and hating Indians that these Europeans, once irreconcilable, were finally united. Ironically, only in the face of a common enemy did they discover an ideal that would come to define the best in American life: ethnic and religious tolerance."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Silver, Peter Rhoads
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Frontier and pioneer life
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America, Peter Silver
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-386) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 1.
- Unsettled Country.
- p. 3
- 2.
- Fearing Indians.
- p. 39
- 3.
- Wounds Crying for Vengeance.
- p. 73
- 4.
- Seven Years' War and the White People.
- p. 95
- 5.
- Attacking Indians.
- p. 125
- 6.
- Spirit of Enterprise.
- p. 161
- 7.
- Quakers Unmasked.
- p. 191
- 8.
- Barbarism and the American Revolution.
- p. 227
- 9.
- Postwar That Wasn't.
- p. 261
- Control code
- ocn145938368
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xxvi, 406 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393334906
- Lccn
- 2007025279
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- Label
- Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America, Peter Silver
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-386) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 1.
- Unsettled Country.
- p. 3
- 2.
- Fearing Indians.
- p. 39
- 3.
- Wounds Crying for Vengeance.
- p. 73
- 4.
- Seven Years' War and the White People.
- p. 95
- 5.
- Attacking Indians.
- p. 125
- 6.
- Spirit of Enterprise.
- p. 161
- 7.
- Quakers Unmasked.
- p. 191
- 8.
- Barbarism and the American Revolution.
- p. 227
- 9.
- Postwar That Wasn't.
- p. 261
- Control code
- ocn145938368
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xxvi, 406 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393334906
- Lccn
- 2007025279
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill., map
Subject
- Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
- Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- United States -- Race relations
- Indians of North America -- Wars
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