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Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South (Paperback)
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Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South (Paperback)
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This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how
the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the
ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional
synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus
is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their
neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an 'eventful' approach to
social change, Robin Beck argues that the collapse of the
Mississippian world was fundamentally a transformation of political
economy, from one built on maize to one of guns, slaves and hides.
The story takes us from first encounters through the rise of the
Indian slave trade and the scourge of disease to the wars that
shook the American South in the early 1700s. Yet the book's focus
remains on the Catawbas, drawing on their experiences in a violent,
unstable landscape to develop a comparative perspective on
structural continuity and change.
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