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Deadly medicine : Indians and alcohol in early America / Peter C. Mancall.

Mancall, Peter C. (Author).

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Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America. The author follows the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the colonial distributors and on to the Indian consumers in the eastern woodlands. To discover why Indians participated in the trade and why they experienced such a powerful desire for alcohol, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and reexamines the colonial era as a time when Indians were forming new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Finally, Mancall compares Indian drinking in New France and New Spain with that in the British colonies.

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ISBN: 0801480442
ISBN: 0801427622 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780801427626 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: History and physiology -- Stereotypes -- Trade -- Consumption -- Costs -- Temperance -- New Spain, New France -- The British Imperial moment, 1763-1775 -- Legacies.

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Subject:: Indians of North America > Alcohol use > History.
Alcohol Drinking > ethnology > United States.
Alcohol Drinking > history > United States.
Alcoholic Beverages > adverse effects > United States.
Indians, North American > United States.

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