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Separate Peoples, One Land : The Minds Of Cherokees, Blacks, And Whites On The Tennessee Frontier

Attribution
Cynthia Cumfer
Publication Details
Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Availability
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(LOWER LEVEL) F445.A1 C86 2007 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
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Description
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee removal. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Cumfer, Cynthia
Subject
Contents
- Kinship and nationhood : the construction of relationship between Cherokees and settlers, 1768-1788
- Ungrateful brothers and an uncivilized nation : the Cherokees and settlers reconceive their relationship, 1776-1796
- Fictive father and Federalism : Cherokees, Tennesseans, and the United States, 1796-1810
- "The name of my nation is Cherokee" : the reformulation of Cherokee identity
- "The nigger-trader bought me" : African American community
- "A never-failing resource in the benevolence of society" : sociability and family in the Euro-American community
- "The protection of civil government" : governance in the Euro-American community
- "The best security of rising greatness" : economic relations in the Euro-American community
ISBN
- 0807858447
- 9780807858448
- 0807831514
- 9780807831519
LCCN
- 2007015298
Open Library ID
- /b/OL17906362M
- /b/OL11312163M