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Paper Sovereigns - Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 164-1664 (Hardcover)
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Paper Sovereigns - Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 164-1664 (Hardcover)
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In many accounts of Native American history, treaties are
synonymous with tragedy. From the beginnings of settlement,
Europeans made and broke treaties, often exploiting Native American
lack of alphabetic literacy to manipulate political negotiation.
But while colonial dealings had devastating results for Native
people, treaty making and breaking involved struggles more complex
than any simple contest between invaders and victims. The early
colonists were often compelled to negotiate on Indian terms, and
treaties took a bewildering array of shapes ranging from rituals to
gestures to pictographs. At the same time, Jeffrey Glover
demonstrates, treaties were international events, scrutinized by
faraway European audiences and framed against a background of
English, Spanish, French, and Dutch imperial rivalries. To
establish the meaning of their agreements, colonists and Natives
adapted and invented many new kinds of political representation,
combining rituals from tribal, national, and religious traditions.
Drawing on an archive that includes written documents, printed
books, orations, landscape markings, wampum beads, tally sticks,
and other technologies of political accounting, Glover examines the
powerful influence of treaty making along the vibrant and
multicultural Atlantic coast of the seventeenth century.
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