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BL
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1040308
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b794678
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Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean.
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| Title & Author
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Brothers among nations : : the pursuit of intercultural alliances in early America, 1580-1660 /\ Cynthia J. Van Zandt.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2008.
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ix, 252 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0195181247
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: 9780195181241
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-233) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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"In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia J. Van Zandt argues that the pursuit of alliances was a widespread multiethnic quest that shaped the early colonial American world in fundamentally important ways. These alliances could produce surprising results, with Europeans sometimes subservient to more powerful Native American nations, even as native nations were sometimes clients and tributaries of European colonists. Spanning nine European colonies - including English, Dutch, and Swedish colonies - as well as many Native American nations and a community of transplanted Africans, Brothers among Nations enlists a broad array of sources to illuminate the degree to which European colonists were often among the most vulnerable people in North America and the centrality of Native Americans to the success of the European colonial project."--Jacket.
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Boston Authors Club.
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Indians of North America-- Colonization.
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Indians of North America-- First contact with Europeans.
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Indians of North America-- History-- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Cultural relations-- United States.
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Ethnic relations.
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Indians of North America-- Colonial period.
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Indians of North America-- Colonization.
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Indians of North America-- First contact with Europeans.
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Indians of North America-- First contact with Europeans.
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Indians of North America-- History-- Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
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United States, Ethnic relations.
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United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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United States, Ethnic relations.
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United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48/273009032
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| LC Classification
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E77.V25 2008
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