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Book

The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814

Call Number

  • H 977 S6255 (CEN)

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Edition

Pbk. ed.

Publication Information

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2001.

Physical Description

xxvii, 414 p. : maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Notes

Papers from a conference held in Sept. 1998 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.

Contents

  • The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814: an overview / David Curtis Skaggs
  • French imperial policy for the Great Lakes / W.J. Eccles
  • Henry Bouquet and British infantry tactics on the Ohio frontier, 1758-1764 / Charles E. Brodine, Jr.
  • The microbes of war: the British Army and epidemic disease among the Ohio Indians, 1758-1765 / Matthew C. Ward
  • Charles-Michel Mouet de Langlade: warrior, soldier, and intercultural "window" on the Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes / Michael A. McDonnell
  • The Iroquois and the Native American struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1754-1794 / Jan W. Parmenter
  • The French connection: the interior French and their role in French-British relations in the Western Great Lakes, 1760-1775 / Keith R. Widder
  • "Ignorant bigots and busy rebels": The American Revolution in the Western Great Lakes / Susan Sleeper-Smith
  • Fortress Detroit, 1701-1826 / Brian Leigh Dunnigan
  • Rethinking the Gnadenhutten Massacre: the contest for power in the public world of the Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier / Leonard Sadosky
  • War as cultural encounter in the Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins
  • Liberty and power in the Old Northwest, 1765-1800 / Eric Hinderaker
  • Supper and celibacy: Quaker-Seneca refexive missions / Robert S. Cox.
  • The Mohawk/Oneida corridor: the geography of inland navigation across New York / Philip Lord, Jr.
  • Iroquis external affairs, 1807-1815: the crisis of the new order / Carl Benn
  • The firelands: land speculation and the War of 1812 / R. Douglas Hart
  • Reluctant warriors: British North Americans and the War of 1812 / E. Jane Errington
  • Forgotten allies: the loyal Shawnees and the War of 1812 / R. David Edmunds
  • "To obtain command of the Lakes": the United States and the contest for Lakes Erie and Ontario, 1812-1815 / Jeff Seiken
  • The meaning of the wars for the Great Lakes / Andrew R.L. Cayton.

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