Full name: The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Author: Richard White Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780521183444 0521183448

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 Similar books: I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen America, 1908 by Jim Rasenberger The American Future by Simon Schama The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester A Nation Among Nations by Thomas Bender The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages by Samuel Eliot Morison The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone Lies Across America by James W. Loewen The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber U.S. History For Dummies by Steve Wiegand From Colony to Superpower by George C. Herring Fur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay Dolin Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins