Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America

Published by Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, 2011

ISBN 10: 0981976646 (ISBN 13: 9780981976648)

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Black fabric boards with the title in silver lettering across the front cover and down the spine. There is a matte color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title in embossed metallic red lettering on the front cover and down a black spine. There is a mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are a bright orange. Pages: (7), viii-ix, (1), 1-118. Profusely illustrated with full-color and true-tone images. "'Peace and friendship.' This noble phrase, emblazoned on the back of silver peace medals given by American presidents to chiefs of important tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represents an ideal of interactions between American or European governments and Native American tribes. This book presents the stories of people and events behind the medals." Contents are as follows: Searching for the stories behind the medals / Robert B. Pickering -- Displaying the source of the sacred : shell gorgets, peace medals, and the accessing of supernatural powers / F. Kent Reilly III -- Tomás Prieto's al Mérito Spanish Indian peace medals / Barry D. Tayman, Tony Lopez, and Skyler Liechty -- The Indian peace medals of Louis XV / John W. Adams -- British medals depicted in Cherokee portraits of 1762 / Duane H. King -- Washington oval peace medals / George J. Fuld -- French donative medals of Louis Philippe I / Bruce W. Arnold -- Keokuk's peace medals : mirrors onto a fractured era / Frank H. Goodyear III.…

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Title
Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America
Author
Pickering, Robert (and) F. Reilly (and) Barry Tayman (and) Tony Lopez (and) Skyler Liechty (and) John Adams (and) Duane King (and) George Fuld (and) Bruce Arnold (and) Frank Goodyear
Publisher
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa
Publication year
2011
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VG+/VG+
Binding
Hardcover
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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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