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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      November 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511976957
      9781107005624
      9780521183444
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976957
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.976kg, 578 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 576 Pages
      • Series:
      Studies in North American Indian History
      Subjects:
      History, Colonial American History, History of Native American Peoples
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    Series:
    Studies in North American Indian History
    Subjects:
    History, Colonial American History, History of Native American Peoples
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    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.

    Reviews

    'White's work is also perfect for historians who are themselves looking into more information and research on the Natives' lives during the colonial era … White enchants all; I could not put this book down when I began reading it. The final verdict: Recommend.'

    Joshua Chanin Source: Reviewer’s Bookwatch (www.midwestbookreview.com)

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    • 1 - Refugees: a world made of fragments
      pp 1-49
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