Our Savage Neighbors – How Indian War Transformed Early America - Hardcover

Silver, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393062481 ISBN 13: 9780393062489

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh-groups that rarely intermingled in Europe-were thrown together when they confronted the American countryside. Rather than embracing the inescapable and ever-increasing diversity, the European settler communities had their very existence threatened by the tensions and fears among their own groups. Only through "Indian-hating"-in both military and rhetorical forms-could the splintered colonists find a common ground.In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver gives us an astonishingly vivid picture of eighteenth-century America. He straddles cultural history, political history, social history, and ethnohistory to offer groundbreaking insights into the seminal forces that continue to shape the United States today.

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Review:

Penetrates searchingly into a dark chapter of Colonial history.

Synopsis:

The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically and religiously mixed societies on earth. The European groups were threatened by the tensions and fears between them and only through "Indian-hating" could they find common ground. Unearthing the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver offers us a picture of eighteenth-century America with insights into the forces that continue to shape the US.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393062481
• ISBN 13: 9780393062489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432