Contributions

  • Richter, Daniel K. - Contributor
  • Merrell, James Hart, 1953- - Contributor

Publication

2003 - Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

52,750 words, Guess

Page Count

211 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC973.04/97
  • LCCE99.I7 .B37 2003

Description

"For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier - "the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois. Beyond the Covenant Chain was one of the first studies to acknowledge fully that the Iroquois never had an empire. It remains the best study of diplomatic and military relations among Native American groups in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America. Published in paperback for the first time, it features a new preface by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Beyond the covenant chain: the Iroquois and their neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800Pennsylvania State University Press2003-01-01

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