The Middle Ground : Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 de White, Richard

Brand: Cambridge University Press, 1991-09-27. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x9. Reprint. An excellent copy. 1994 Trade Paperback. xvi, 544 pp. This book seeks to step 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 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 the "Pays d'en haut". Here the older worlds of the Algonquins and 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 recreation of the Indians as alien and exotic. The process of accommodation described in this book takes place in a middle ground, a place… Leer más

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (1999), 544pp, corners slightly bumped, light rubbing & shelfwear to cover, some underlining throughout.. Trade Paperback. Good +/No Jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (1999), 544pp, illus., some creases and shelfwear to cover, light foxing to pg edges, stain to bottom margin of last 40 pgs,owner's note to title pg, a couple pgs w/ margin notes or underlining, rest of text is clean.. Trade Paperback. Good +/No Jacket.

Brand: Cambridge University Press, 1991-09-27. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1991. Paperback. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge University Press, September 1991. Trade Paperback. Used.

New York: Cambridge University Press. Vg- In Wraps. Faint Edgewear. Lightly Sunned At Spine. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 544.. 1995. Reprint.. Trade Paperback..

Cambridge University Press, 27/09/1991 00:00:01. paperback. Very Good. 3.0457 in x 23.0964 in x 15.4822 in.