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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Silver, Peter Rhoads.     Subjects     Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.     Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.     Indians of North America -- Wars.     Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.     United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.     United States -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Silver, Peter Rhoads.       by title:      Our savage neighbors...       by call number:      973.2 S587o     Search the Web     Silver, Peter Rhoads.     Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.     Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.     Indians of North America -- Wars.     Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.     United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.     United States -- Race relations.       MARC Display

Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America / Peter Silver. by Silver, Peter Rhoads. W.W. Norton, c2008. Call #: 973.2 S587o Subjects Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.   Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.   Indians of North America -- Wars.   Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.   United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.   United States -- Race relations. URL856 Table of contents only ISBN:  9780393062489 (hardcover) 0393062481 (hardcover) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xxvi, 406 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-386) and index. Contents:  1. An Unsettled Country -- 2. Fearing Indians -- 3. Wounds Crying for Vengeance -- 4. The Seven Years' War and the White People -- 5. Attacking Indians -- 6. A Spirit of Enterprise -- 7. The Quakers Unmasked -- 8. Barbarism and the American Revolution -- 9. The Postwar That Wasn't. Summary:  "Relying on original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had only rarely intermingled in Europe; and with religious revivals, war scares, and unease over immigration, the divisions between them only grew - until, with the arrival of the Seven Years' War, thousands of country people were forced to flee from Indian attack." "Playing politics with terror, rural settlers accused Quakers, politicians, and urban elites of turning their backs on the countryside and on their fellow "white people" (a term that until then had been used only by Indian tribes). Agitators carted scalped corpses into city squares and cried out for action. Writers, pamphleteers, politicians, religious leaders - all seized upon the horrors of Indian war, recycling its gruesome images to stoke the Europeans' collective alarm." "Silver reveals in vivid and often chilling detail how easily a rhetoric of fear can incite entire populations to violence. He shows how it was only through the shared experience of fearing and hating Indians that these Europeans, once irreconcilable, were finally united. Ironically, only in the face of a common enemy did they discover an ideal that would come to define the best in American life: ethnic and religious tolerance."--BOOK JACKET. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sheet Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 973.2 S587o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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