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Carl Benn - Native Memoirs from the War of 1812 - 9781421412184 - V9781421412184
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Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

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Description for Native Memoirs from the War of 1812 Scholars, students, and general readers interested in indigenous and military history in the early American republic will appreciate these important memoirs, along with Benn's helpful introductions and annotations. Series: Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22, 17 black & white illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BM; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 471 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American soldier William Apess, a Christian convert from the Pequots who lived on a reservation in Connecticut. Carl Benn explores the wartime passages of their autobiographies, in which they detail their decisions to take up arms, their experiences in the fighting, their broader lives within the context of native-newcomer relations, and their views ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421412184
SKU
V9781421412184
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-27

About Carl Benn
Carl Benn is a professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto. His books include Mohawks on the Nile: Natives among the Canadian Voyagers in Egypt, 1884-85, The War of 1812, and The Iroquois in the War of 1812.

Reviews for Native Memoirs from the War of 1812
Any collection strong in college-level analysis of this war and Native roles in American history will find this a powerful survey based on source references. Midwest Book Review At first glance these republished memoirs might seem unremarkable. The artful and compelling end product will shatter these doubts instantly.
Eugene R. H. Tesdahl Journal of the Early Americas Benn uses ... Read more

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