Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America

This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeenth-century America. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of the diverse peoples who coexisted uneasily during the colonial encounter b...

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Beteilige Person: Dennis, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2018]
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Links:https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501723698
Zusammenfassung:This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeenth-century America. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of the diverse peoples who coexisted uneasily during the colonial encounter between Europeans and Indians, he explains a long-standing paradox: the apparent belligerence of the Five Nations, a people who saw themselves as promoters of universal peace.In a radically new interpretation of the Iroquois, Dennis argues that the Five Nations sought to incorporate their new European neighbors as kinspeople into their Longhouse, the physical symbolic embodiment of Iroquois domesticity and peace. He offers a close, original reading of the fundamental political myth of the Five Nations, the Deganawidah Epic, and situates it historically and ideologically in Iroquois life. Detailing the particular nature of Iroquois peace, he describes the Five Nations' diligent efforts to establish peace on their own terms and the frustrations and hostilities that stemmed from the fundamental contrast between Iroquois and European goals, expectations, and perceptions of human relationships
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
Umfang:1 online resource 15 halftones. 6 maps
ISBN:9781501723698