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Killing over land : murder and diplomacy on the early American frontier
Title
Killing over land : murder and diplomacy on the early American frontier / Robert M. Owens.
ISBN
9780806193625
080619362X
Publication
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2024]
Physical Description
x, 255 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book analyzes how intercultural murders complicated, but at times facilitated, diplomacy between Indians and whites in Early America"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 01, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
1. Contrasts and Similarities: Pennsylvania and Georgia
2. Sovereignty and Real Estate
3. Blood in the Southern Hills
4. Murder and Kentucky
5. Murder and Revolution
6. Conquest in Theory and Practice
7. Cherokees and Creeks in the New Republic
8. Hanging Maw's Words versus Tennessee Bullets
9. Total Destruction? Creek-US Relations in the 1790s
10. Murder in the Age of Jefferson
11. Gender, Violence, and the Limitations of Chivalry
12. "An indelible reproach upon the character of a Christian country and society": Murder and Occasional Justice in the North
13. Prologue to Removal
14. Colonial Endgame
Conclusion. Tsali
Epilogue.
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