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Natives & Newcomers

The Way We Lived in North Carolina Before 1770

By: Elizabeth Anne Fenn

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Natives & Newcomers

The Way We Lived in North Carolina Before 1770

By: Elizabeth Anne Fenn

Natives and Newcomers: The Way We Lived in North Carolina before 1770

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UNC Press Books

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0807841013

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9780807841013

Encounters at the Heart of the World

A History of the Mandan People

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

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Encounters at the Heart of the World

A History of the Mandan People

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

This Pulitzer Prize–winning work pieces together the lost history of the Mandan Native Americans and their thriving society on the Upper Missouri River. The Mandan people’s bustling towns in present-day North Dakota were at the center of the North American universe for centuries. Yet their history has been nearly forgotten, maintained in fragmentary documents and the journals of white visitors such as Lewis and Clark. In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn pieces together those fragments along with important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. The result is a bold new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived—and how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured.

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520

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374711070

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9780374711078

Pox Americana

The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

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Pox Americana

The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia, smallpox broke out in Mexico City, whence it followed travelers going north, striking Santa Fe and outlying pueblos in January 1781. Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson's Bay. The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-health crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.

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388

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Hill and Wang

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1466808047

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9781466808041

The Great Power of Small Nations

Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South

By: Elizabeth N. Ellis

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The Great Power of Small Nations

Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South

By: Elizabeth N. Ellis

In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smaller Native American nations that shaped the development of the Gulf South. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories, Ellis’s narrative chronicles how diverse Indigenous peoples—including Biloxis, Choctaws, Chitimachas, Chickasaws, Houmas, Mobilians, and Tunicas—influenced and often challenged the growth of colonial Louisiana. The book centers on questions of Native nation-building and international diplomacy, and it argues that Native American migration and practices of offering refuge to migrants in crisis enabled Native nations to survive the violence of colonization. Indeed, these practices also made them powerful. When European settlers began to arrive in Indigenous homelands at the turn of the eighteenth century, these small nations, or petites nations as the French called them, pulled colonists into their political and social systems, thereby steering the development of early Louisiana. In some cases, the same practices that helped Native peoples withstand colonization in the eighteenth century, including frequent migration, living alongside foreign nations, and welcoming outsiders into their lands, have made it difficult for their contemporary descendants to achieve federal acknowledgment and full rights as Native American peoples. The Great Power of Small Nations tackles questions of Native power past and present and provides a fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf South.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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151282318X

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9781512823189

Pox Americana

The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

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Pox Americana

The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across North America when the War of Independence began, and until now, we have known almost nothing about it. Elizabeth Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply this disease affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone on the continent. Her remarkable research shows us how the disease devastated the American troops at Quebec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston, and how it ravaged slaves in Virginia who had escaped to join the British forces.

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0750935448

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9780750935449

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Natives & Newcomers

Natives & Newcomers

Encounters at the Heart of the World

Encounters at the Heart of the World

Pox Americana

Pox Americana

The Great Power of Small Nations

The Great Power of Small Nations

Pox Americana

Pox Americana

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