| The Middle Ground Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): White, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107005620 ISBN-13: 9781107005624 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | North American - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 977.004 |
| LCCN: 2010034929 |
| Series: Studies in North American Indian History |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.94 lbs) 578 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Great Lakes |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Richard: - Richard White holds the Margaret Byrne Professorship in American History at Stanford University, California and is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading scholars in three related fields: the American West, Native American history and environmental history. Professor White is the author of five books. The first edition of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991) was named a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Among other honors, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. |