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Trade, Land, Power - The Struggle for Eastern North America (Hardcover)
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Trade, Land, Power - The Struggle for Eastern North America (Hardcover)
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In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading
colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native
peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material
basis of power. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
in eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood
the close relationship between political power and control of trade
and land, but they did so in very different ways. For Native
Americans, trade was a collective act. The alliances that made a
people powerful became visible through material exchanges that
forged connections among kin groups, villages, and the spirit
world. The land itself was often conceived as a participant in
these transactions through the blessings it bestowed on those who
gave in return. For colonizers, by contrast, power tended to grow
from the individual accumulation of goods and landed property more
than from collective exchange-from domination more than from
alliance. For many decades, an uneasy balance between the two
systems of power prevailed. Tracing the messy process by which
global empires and their colonial populations could finally abandon
compromise and impose their definitions on the continent, Daniel K.
Richter casts penetrating light on the nature of European
colonization, the character of Native resistance, and the formative
roles that each played in the origins of the United States.
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