Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire

Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 0801436575
ISBN-13 : 9780801436574
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Book Synopsis Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire by : Timothy John Shannon

Download or read book Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire written by Timothy John Shannon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By tracing the local, provincial, and imperial settings of the Albany Congress, Shannon's book fleshes out the events that shook Britain's rule of North America. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism controlled by a distant authority."--BOOK JACKET.


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