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  • Audiobook

    The Shawnees and the War for America

    Narrated by George K. Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    Acclaimed historian Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth professor of history and American Indian studies, is the series editor for The Penguin Library of American Indian History. Rich in detail and highly readable, this compelling narrative portrays the Shawnees' valiant struggle to maintain their way of life. "A remarkably accessible distillation of Shawnee history."-Publishers Weekly ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hard Neighbors

    The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

    An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer spirit. Hard Neighbors highlights stories that have been subsumed by terms such as "English settlers" and "American expansion" and traces ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of North America

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences as Indians and Europeans settlers and frontiersmen all struggled to adapt to new boundaries new alignments and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Victory with No Name

    The Native American Defeat of the First American Army

    In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering nearly one thousand casualties in killed and wounded, while Indian casualties numbered only a ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • One Vast Winter Count

    The Native American West before Lewis and Clark

    Series series History of the American West
    This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • White People, Indians, and Highlanders

    Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

    In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins- ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • New Worlds for All

    Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

    Series series The American Moment
    The interactions between Indians and Europeans changed America—and both cultures.Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • The Indian World of George Washington

    The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

    George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Chiefs Now in This City

    Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America

    During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. They were frequently referred to as "the Chiefs now in this city" during their visits, which were sometimes for extended ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Shawnees and the War for America

    With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Pen and Ink Witchcraft

    Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

    Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD