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Author:

Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean

Title:

Brothers among nations : the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 / Cynthia J. Van Zandt.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

ix, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans
Indians of North America--Colonization
Cultural relations--United States--History.
United States--Ethnic relations
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-233) and index.

Contents:

Mapping the peoples of the world: geography, chorography, and intercultural alliances -- Laying the groundwork for alliances: language, maps, and intercultural suspicion -- "You called him father": fictive kinship and tributary alliances in Tsenacommacah/Virginia -- Alliance making and the struggle for the soul of Plymouth Colony -- Captain Claiborne's alliance -- Alliances of necessity: fictive kinship and Manhattan's diaspora African community -- Nations intertwined: alliances and the Susquehannocks' geography of North America -- Epilogue: Captain Claiborne's lost isle.

ISBN:

0195181247 (alk. paper)
9780195181241 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)185095438

LCCN:

2007051112

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)