The ordeal of the longhouse : the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization

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The ordeal of the longhouse : the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization / Daniel K. Richter.

Richter, Daniel K. (Author). Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (Added Author).

Summary:

"Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers."--Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 0807820601
ISBN: 9780807820605
ISBN: 0807843946
ISBN: 9780807843949
Physical Description: xvi, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-415) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Preface -- Introduction -- The Iroquois in the world on the turtle's back -- The great league of peace and power -- The great league for war and survival -- The economic lifeline to the Dutch -- The ascendency of the Francophiles -- The revolt of the Anglophiles -- The last of the Beaver Wars -- The political crisis of the Iroquois confederacy -- The precarious settlement abroad and at home -- The neutralist diplomacy of peace and balance -- The Iroquois in a Euro-American world -- Methodological comments.
Awards Note:: Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 1993