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Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast
Michelle Lemaster
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Hardcover. The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems. Michelle LeMaster addresses the question of how differing cultural attitudes toward gender influenced Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial Southeast. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems. In a region in which the balance of power between multiple players remained uncertain for many decades, British and Native leaders turned to concepts of gender and family to create new diplomatic norms to govern interactions as they sought to construct and maintain working relationships. In Brothers Born of One Mother, Michelle LeMaster addresses the question of how differing cultural attitudes toward gender influenced Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial Southeast. ... Read more
The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems. In a region in which the balance of power between multiple players remained uncertain for many decades, British and Native leaders turned to concepts of gender and family to create new diplomatic norms to govern interactions as they sought to construct and maintain working relationships. In Brothers Born of One Mother, Michelle LeMaster addresses the question of how differing cultural attitudes toward gender influenced Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial Southeast. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813932415
SKU
V9780813932415
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Ref
99-99
About Michelle Lemaster
Michelle LeMaster is Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University.
Reviews for Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast
Brothers Born of One Mother succeeds better than any other book presently available in highlighting the importance and role of gender
both as a category of analysis and as lived experience
as American Indians and the English encountered and lived with each other in the Southeast prior to the American Revolution. Moving beyond boundaries of tribe and colony, this work accomplishes a ... Read more
both as a category of analysis and as lived experience
as American Indians and the English encountered and lived with each other in the Southeast prior to the American Revolution. Moving beyond boundaries of tribe and colony, this work accomplishes a ... Read more