In the pale's shadow: Indians and British forts in eighteenth-century America
British forts in the colonial American backcountry have long been subjects of American heroic myth. Forts were romanticized as harbingers of European civilization, and the Indians who visited them as awestruck, childlike, or scheming. Two centuries of historiography did little to challenge the image...
Main Author: | Ingram, Daniel Patrick |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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W&M ScholarWorks
2008
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623527 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3318&context=etd |
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