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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679454713
ISBN-13
9780679454717
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45698089
Product Key Features
Book Title
Divided Ground : Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 19th Century, Military / United States, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
32.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-043582
Reviews
"Powerful and poignant,The Divided Groundtreats Indians as vital players and not just as victimized pawns in the post-Revolutionary struggles to establish borders and grab property. Never again will readers of Alan Taylor's riveting book see the Niagara River boundary between Canada and the United States as just another line on the map." --Stephen Aron, author ofAmerican Confluence "Alan Taylor's magisterialThe Divided Groundoffers exciting new perspectives on the history and legacies of the American Revolution. Taylor's gripping accounts of struggles over property, sovereignty, and national boundaries in the northern borderland illuminate the complicated connections between the familiar terrain of high politics and the history-making initiatives and responses of his extraordinary, vividly portrayed cast of characters on the ground. No previous scholar has better captured the transformative, often tragic experience of the many peoplesIndian, white, and mixed--who made the Revolution. No one has a keener understanding of the unforeseeable contingencies and consequences of American nation-making, the consolidation of British imperial authority to the north, and the destruction of Iroquoia.The Divided Groundis a magnificent achievement." --Peter S. Onuf, author ofJefferson's Empire "With tenacious research, keen insight, and precise prose, Alan Taylor tells the story of the American Revolution as we have never heard it beforea story of the Iroquois confederacy's struggle for self determination in the borderlands between the fledgling United States and the British empire's outposts in Canada. This is compassionate, innovative history." --Elizabeth A. Fenn, author ofPox Americana "Splendid. Cleverly linked to the divergent lives of classmates Joseph Brant and Samuel Kirkland, The Divided Ground is a masterful telling of the many rivalries that destroyed Iroquoia. After the devastating Revolutionary War, and the relentless chicanery of land-grabbers, came the shackles of a war-prone new international boundary." --Ian K. Steele, author ofWar Paths: Invasions of North America, "Powerful and poignant, "The Divided Ground" treats Indians as vital players and not just as victimized pawns in the post-Revolutionary struggles to establish borders and grab property. Never again will readers of Alan Taylor's riveting book see the Niagara River boundary between Canada and the United States as just another line on the map." --Stephen Aron, author of "American Confluence" "Alan Taylor's magisterial "The Divided Ground" offers exciting new perspectives on the history and legacies of the American Revolution. Taylor's gripping accounts of struggles over property, sovereignty, and national boundaries in the northern borderland illuminate the complicated connections between the familiar terrain of high politics and the history-making initiatives and responses of his extraordinary, vividly portrayed cast of characters on the ground. No previous scholar has better captured the transformative, often tragic experience of the many peoples-Indian, white, and mixed--who made the Revolution. No one has a keener understanding of the unforeseeable contingencies and consequences of American nation-making, the consolidation of British imperial authority to the north, and the destruction of Iroquoia. "The Divided Ground "is a magnificent achievement." --Peter S. Onuf, author of "Jefferson's Empire" "With tenacious research, keen insight, and precise prose, Alan Taylor tells the story of the American Revolution as we have never heard it before-a story of the Iroquois confederacy's struggle for self determination in the borderlands between the fledgling United States and the British empire's outposts in Canada. This is compassionate, innovative history." --Elizabeth A.Fenn, author of "Pox Americana ""Splendid. Cleverly linked to the divergent lives of classmates Joseph Brant and Samuel Kirkland, The Divided Ground is a masterful telling of the many rivalries that destroyed Iroquoia. After the devastating Revolutionary War, and the relentless chicanery of land-grabbers, came the shackles of a war-prone new international boundary." --Ian K. Steele, author of "War Paths: Invasions of North America ", "Powerful and poignant,The Divided Groundtreats Indians as vital players and not just as victimized pawns in the post-Revolutionary struggles to establish borders and grab property. Never again will readers of Alan Taylor's riveting book see the Niagara River boundary between Canada and the United States as just another line on the map." --Stephen Aron, author ofAmerican Confluence "Alan Taylor's magisterialThe Divided Groundoffers exciting new perspectives on the history and legacies of the American Revolution. Taylor's gripping accounts of struggles over property, sovereignty, and national boundaries in the northern borderland illuminate the complicated connections between the familiar terrain of high politics and the history-making initiatives and responses of his extraordinary, vividly portrayed cast of characters on the ground. No previous scholar has better captured the transformative, often tragic experience of the many peoplesIndian, white, and mixed--who made the Revolution. No one has a keener understanding of the unforeseeable contingencies and consequences of American nation-making, the consolidation of British imperial authority to the north, and the destruction of Iroquoia.The Divided Groundis a magnificent achievement." --Peter S. Onuf, author ofJefferson's Empire "With tenacious research, keen insight, and precise prose, Alan Taylor tells the story of the American Revolution as we have never heard it beforea story of the Iroquois confederacy's struggle for self determination in the borderlands between the fledgling United States and the British empire's outposts in Canada. This is compassionate, innovative history." --Elizabeth A. Fenn, author ofPox Americana "Splendid. Cleverly linked to the divergent lives of classmates Joseph Brant and Samuel Kirkland, The Divided Ground is a masterful telling of the many rivalries that destroyed Iroquoia. After the devastating Revolutionary War, and the relentless chicanery of land-grabbers, came the shackles of a war-prone new international boundary." --Ian K. Steele, author ofWar Paths: Invasions of North America From the Hardcover edition., "Powerful and poignant, The Divided Ground treats Indians as vital players and not just as victimized pawns in the post-Revolutionary struggles to establish borders and grab property. Never again will readers of Alan Taylor's riveting book see the Niagara River boundary between Canada and the United States as just another line on the map." --Stephen Aron, author of American Confluence "Alan Taylor's magisterial The Divided Ground offers exciting new perspectives on the history and legacies of the American Revolution. Taylor's gripping accounts of struggles over property, sovereignty, and national boundaries in the northern borderland illuminate the complicated connections between the familiar terrain of high politics and the history-making initiatives and responses of his extraordinary, vividly portrayed cast of characters on the ground. No previous scholar has better captured the transformative, often tragic experience of the many peoplesIndian, white, and mixed--who made the Revolution. No one has a keener understanding of the unforeseeable contingencies and consequences of American nation-making, the consolidation of British imperial authority to the north, and the destruction of Iroquoia. The Divided Ground is a magnificent achievement." --Peter S. Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire "With tenacious research, keen insight, and precise prose, Alan Taylor tells the story of the American Revolution as we have never heard it beforea story of the Iroquois confederacy's struggle for self determination in the borderlands between the fledgling United States and the British empire's outposts in Canada. This is compassionate, innovative history." --Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Splendid. Cleverly linked to the divergent lives of classmates Joseph Brant and Samuel Kirkland, The Divided Ground is a masterful telling of the many rivalries that destroyed Iroquoia. After the devastating Revolutionary War, and the relentless chicanery of land-grabbers, came the shackles of a war-prone new international boundary." --Ian K. Steele, author of War Paths: Invasions of North America
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
974.7004/9755
Synopsis
In 1761, at a boarding school in New England, a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant first met Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman. They began a long and intense relationship that would redefine North America. For nearly fifty years, their lives intertwined, at first as close friends but later as bitter foes. Kirkland served American expansion as a missionary and agent, promoting Indian conversion and dispossession. Brant pursued an alternative future for the continent by defending an Indian borderland nestled between the British in Canada and the Americans, rather than divided by them. By telling their dramatic story, Alan Taylor illuminates the dual borders that consolidated the new American nation after the Revolution. By constricting Indians within reservation lines, the Americans sought to control their northern boundary with the British Empire, which lingered in Canada. The border became firm as thousands of settlers established farms, held as private property, all around the new reservations. This struggle also pitted the federal government against the leaders of New York, competing to control the lands and the Indians of the border country. They contended for the highest of stakes because the transformation of Indian land constructed the wealth and the power of states, nations, and empires in North America. In addition to land, the frontier contest pivoted on murders, which repeatedly tested who had legal jurisdiction: Indians or newcomers. To assert power, the contending regimes sought to try and execute Indians or settlers who killed one another. To defend native autonomy, however, the Indians asserted an alternative by "covering the graves" ofvictims with presents to console their kin. When the gallows replaced covered graves, the Indians lost their middle position as free peoples. Taylor breaks with the stereotype of Indians as defiant but doomed traditionalists, as noble but futile defenders of ancient ways. In fact, the borderland Indians demonstrated remarkable adaptability and creativity in coping with the contending powers and with the growing numbers of invading settlers. Led by Joseph Brant, the natives tried to manage, rather than entirely to block, the process of settlement. Taylor shows that they did so in ways meant to preserve Indian autonomy and prosperity. Rather than sell lands for a song to governments, the Indians sought greater control and revenue by leasing lands directly to settler tenants. But neither the British nor the American leaders could accept Indians as landlords, as competitors in the construction of power from land in North America. Once a "middle ground," the borderland became a divided ground, partitioned between the British Empire and the American republic., By telling the dramatic story of a young Mohawk Indian, Joseph Brant, and a colonial contemporary, Samuel Kirkland, Taylor illuminates the Indians' role in shaping the post-Revolutionary War borderland of the United States and British Canada., In 1761, at a boarding school in New England, a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant first met Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman. They began a long and intense relationship that would redefine North America. For nearly fifty years, their lives intertwined, at first as close friends but later as bitter foes. Kirkland served American expansion as a missionary and agent, promoting Indian conversion and dispossession. Brant pursued an alternative future for the continent by defending an Indian borderland nestled between the British in Canada and the Americans, rather than divided by them. By telling their dramatic story, Alan Taylor illuminates the dual borders that consolidated the new American nation after the Revolution. By constricting Indians within reservation lines, the Americans sought to control their northern boundary with the British Empire, which lingered in Canada. The border became firm as thousands of settlers established farms, held as private property, all around the new reservations. This struggle also pitted the federal government against the leaders of New York, competing to control the lands and the Indians of the border country. They contended for the highest of stakes because the transformation of Indian land constructed the wealth and the power of states, nations, and empires in North America. In addition to land, the frontier contest pivoted on murders, which repeatedly tested who had legal jurisdiction: Indians or newcomers. To assert power, the contending regimes sought to try and execute Indians or settlers who killed one another. To defend native autonomy, however, the Indians asserted an alternative by "covering the graves" of victims with presents to console their kin. When the gallows replaced covered graves, the Indians lost their middle position as free peoples. Taylor breaks with the stereotype of Indians as defiant but doomed traditionalists, as noble but futile defenders of ancient ways. In fact, the borderland Indians demonstrated remarkable adaptability and creativity in coping with the contending powers and with the growing numbers of invading settlers. Led by Joseph Brant, the natives tried to manage, rather than entirely to block, the process of settlement. Taylor shows that they did so in ways meant to preserve Indian autonomy and prosperity. Rather than sell lands for a song to governments, the Indians sought greater control and revenue by leasing lands directly to settler tenants. But neither the British nor the American leaders could accept Indians as landlords, as competitors in the construction of power from land in North America. Once a "middle ground," the borderland became a divided ground, partitioned between the British Empire and the American republic.
LC Classification Number
E99.I7T299 2006
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