 | Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America Subjects: Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans; Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600−1775; Indians Treatment of -- North America -- History; Indians of North America -- Government relations; North America -- History; In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Daniel K. Richter is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also author of several books, including Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, and Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts. |
