Beyond the covenant chain : the Iroquois and their neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

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Beyond the covenant chain : the Iroquois and their neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

edited with a new preface by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell ; foreword by Wilcomb E. Washburn

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003

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"Originally published: New York : Syracuse University Press, 1987" -- T.p. verso

Bibliographical references: p. 165-202

Includes index

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For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier-"the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois. First published in 1987, Beyond the Covenant Chain was one of the first studies to acknowledge fully that the Iroquois never had an empire. It remains the best study of diplomatic and military relations among Native American groups in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America. Published in paperback for the first time, it features a new introduction by Richter and Merrell. Contributors include Douglas W. Boyce, Mary A. Druke-Becker, Richard L. Haan, Francis Jennings, Michael N. McConnell, Theda Perdue, and Neal Salisbury.

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Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Foreword by Wilcomb E. Washburn Preface to the paperback edition by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell Maps The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the Early 1670s The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the Early 1760s Introduction Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell Part I Perspectives from Iroquoia 1. Ordeals of the Longhouse: The Five Nations in Early American History Daniel K. Richter 2. Linking Arms: The Structure of Iroquois Intertribal Diplomacy Mary Druke Becker 3. Covenant and Consensus: Iroquois and English, 1676-1760 Richard L. Haan part II Near Neighbors 4. Toward the Covenant Chain: Iroquois and Southern New England Algonquins, 1637-1684 Neal Salisbury 5. "Pennsylvania Indians" and the Iroquois Francis Jennings 6. Peoples "In Between": The Iroquois and the Ohio Indians, 1720-1768 Michael N. McConnell Part III Distant Friends and Foes 7. "Their Very Bones Shall Fight": The Catawba-Iroquois Wars James H. Merrell 8. Cherokee Relations with the Iroquois in the Eighteenth Century Theda Perdue 9. "As the Wind Scatters the Smoke": The Tuscaroras in the Eighteenth Century Douglas W. Boyce Notes Index

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