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“colin calloway”

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  • Hard Neighbors

    The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

    by Colin Calloway ...
    An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer spirit. Hard Neighbors highlights stories that have been subsumed by terms such as "English settlers" and "American expansion" and traces ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chiefs Now in This City

    Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America

    by Colin Calloway ...
    During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. They were frequently referred to as "the Chiefs now in this city" during their visits, which were sometimes for extended ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Shawnees and the War for America

    by Colin Calloway ...
    Narrated by George K. Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    Acclaimed historian Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth professor of history and American Indian studies, is the series editor for The Penguin Library of American Indian History. Rich in detail and highly readable, this compelling narrative portrays the Shawnees' valiant struggle to maintain their way of life. "A remarkably accessible distillation of Shawnee history."-Publishers Weekly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • The Indian World of George Washington

    The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • First Manhattans

    A History of the Indians of Greater New York

    by Robert S. Grumet ...
    A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The State of North Carolina with Native American Ancestry

    The Formation of the Eastern and Coastal Counties in North Carolina

    by Milton E. Campbell ...
    More than 50,000 Indians lived in the area now known as North Carolina at the time of Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The Formation North Carolina Coastal and Eastern Counties examines the history of this Native American Indian population. It also focuses upon the formation of North Carolina from colonial times; tracing the origins of its earliest settlers, including Native ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts

    Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country

    by Julie A. Fisher, David J. Silverman ...
    "Ninigret adds layers to a crucial period in regional and early American history, and it invites future conversations about cross-cultural power brokers and the nature of indigenous authority and adaptation in the midst of English settler colonialism."— The New England QuarterlyNinigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Peaceable Kingdom Lost

    The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment

    by Kevin Kenny ...
    William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Brethren by Nature

    New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

    by Margaret Ellen Newell ...
    Newell has done an excellent job of combing through court records correspondence and other materials to reconstruct details large and small and to uncover the stories of enslaved people and their enslavers... [A] testament to her careful scholarship and indeed a central part of the story of Indian slavery in New England.— Daniel K. Richter â• New England QuarterlyIn Brethren by Nature, Margaret ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Groundless

    Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier

    by Gregory Evans Dowd ...
    Series series Early America: History, Context, Culture
    The fascinating—and troubling—story of powerful rumors that circulated and influential legends that arose in early America.Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women’s scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still ... Read more

    $31.99 USD