Books > History > American history
|
Buy Now
Patrolling the Border - Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,183
Discovery Miles 21 830
|
|
Patrolling the Border - Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796 (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Places Series
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict
between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by
years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open
war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two
peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed
as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an
effective method of resisting colonization. Using database and
digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of
resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as
politically motivated border patrols. Drawing on precontact ideas
and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols
harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country. These
actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership
both in Creek country and in the infant United States. In both
polities, people struggled over whether local or central
governments would call the shots. As a state-like institution,
border patrols are the key to understanding seemingly random
violence and its long-term political implications, which would
include, ultimately, Indian removal.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.