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- catalog abstract "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 in between cultures and peoples, and in between empires and non-state villages. On the middle ground people try to persuade others who are different than themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. From the creative misunderstandings that result, there arise shared meanings and new practices.".
- catalog contributor b3265734.
- catalog coverage "Great Lakes Region (North America) History.".
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Refugees: a world made of fragments -- The middle ground -- The fur trade -- The alliance -- Republicans and rebels -- The clash of empires -- Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground -- The British alliance -- The contest of villagers -- Confederacies -- The politics of benevolence -- Epilogue -- Index.".
- catalog description "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 in between cultures and peoples, and in between empires and non-state villages. On the middle ground people try to persuade others who are different than themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. From the creative misunderstandings that result, there arise shared meanings and new practices.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 544 p. :".
- catalog identifier "052137104X".
- catalog identifier "0521424607 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in North American Indian history".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Lakes Region (North America) History.".
- catalog spatial "Great Lakes Region (North America)".
- catalog subject "977/.004973 20".
- catalog subject "Algonquian Indians First contact with Europeans Great Lakes Region (North America)".
- catalog subject "Algonquian Indians Great Lakes Region (North America) History.".
- catalog subject "Algonquian Indians History.".
- catalog subject "E99.A35 W48 1991".
- catalog subject "E99.A35 W48 1991X".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America First contact with Europeans Great Lakes Region (North America)".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Great Lakes Region (North America) History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Refugees: a world made of fragments -- The middle ground -- The fur trade -- The alliance -- Republicans and rebels -- The clash of empires -- Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground -- The British alliance -- The contest of villagers -- Confederacies -- The politics of benevolence -- Epilogue -- Index.".
- catalog title "The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 / Richard White.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".