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A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 Gregory Evans Dowd
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A Companion to American Indian History
Philip J. Deloria,Neal Salisbury +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Deloria et al. presented a survey of the history of American Indians in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, focusing on the first contact, kinship, family kindreds, and community.
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FREEDOM, LAW, AND PROPHECY: A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance
TL;DR: The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) as mentioned in this paper was passed by Congress as a guarantee of constitutional protection of First Amendment rights for Native Americans, including access to sacred sites, use and possession of sacred objects and freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites.
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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide
TL;DR: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide as mentioned in this paper argues that this approach fails to grasp the true origins of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences, and it was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations.
Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796
Abstract: PAGE Despite his participation in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, eventually became royal governor of New York (1770-1771), Virginia (17711783), and the Bahama Islands (1787-1796). His life in the British Empire exposed him to an extraordinary range of political experience, including border disputes, land speculation, frontier warfare and diplomacy, sexual scandal, slave emancipation, naval combat, loyalist advocacy, Amerindian slavery, and trans-imperial filibusters, to say nothing of his proximity to the Haitian Revolution or his role in the defense of the British West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Quick to break with convention on behalf of the system that ensured his privilege, Dunmore was an usually transgressive imperialist, whose career can be used to explore the boundaries of what was possible in the political cultures of the Anglo-Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century. Remarkably, Lord Dunmore has not been the subject of a book-length study in more than seventy years. With a few exceptions (the work of African American historians notable among them), modern scholars have dismissed him as a greedy incompetent. While challenging this characterization, the dissertation makes several arguments about the weakness of royal authority in pre-Revolutionary New York and Virginia, the prominent and problematic role of the land grant as a mechanism of political consent, the importance of Dunmore's proclamation of emancipation, and the endurance of British ambition in North America after 1783. It seeks to make a methodological contribution as well. By positioning Dunmore as the epicenter of a web of interrelations, one reflected in a variety of historical texts and involving people at all levels of the imperial social structure, the dissertation suffuses a host of elements and actors within a single biographical narrative. This integrated approach can serve to counter the excessive compartmentalization that has marked some academic history in recent decades.
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A Companion to American Indian History
Philip J. Deloria,Neal Salisbury +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Deloria et al. presented a survey of the history of American Indians in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, focusing on the first contact, kinship, family kindreds, and community.
Book
The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the French model, its Discontents and Contenders, Empires in Advance: Empires in Retreat, Ascendant Imperialisms, Declining Powers, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index
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FREEDOM, LAW, AND PROPHECY: A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance
TL;DR: The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) as mentioned in this paper was passed by Congress as a guarantee of constitutional protection of First Amendment rights for Native Americans, including access to sacred sites, use and possession of sacred objects and freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites.
Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796
Abstract: PAGE Despite his participation in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, eventually became royal governor of New York (1770-1771), Virginia (17711783), and the Bahama Islands (1787-1796). His life in the British Empire exposed him to an extraordinary range of political experience, including border disputes, land speculation, frontier warfare and diplomacy, sexual scandal, slave emancipation, naval combat, loyalist advocacy, Amerindian slavery, and trans-imperial filibusters, to say nothing of his proximity to the Haitian Revolution or his role in the defense of the British West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Quick to break with convention on behalf of the system that ensured his privilege, Dunmore was an usually transgressive imperialist, whose career can be used to explore the boundaries of what was possible in the political cultures of the Anglo-Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century. Remarkably, Lord Dunmore has not been the subject of a book-length study in more than seventy years. With a few exceptions (the work of African American historians notable among them), modern scholars have dismissed him as a greedy incompetent. While challenging this characterization, the dissertation makes several arguments about the weakness of royal authority in pre-Revolutionary New York and Virginia, the prominent and problematic role of the land grant as a mechanism of political consent, the importance of Dunmore's proclamation of emancipation, and the endurance of British ambition in North America after 1783. It seeks to make a methodological contribution as well. By positioning Dunmore as the epicenter of a web of interrelations, one reflected in a variety of historical texts and involving people at all levels of the imperial social structure, the dissertation suffuses a host of elements and actors within a single biographical narrative. This integrated approach can serve to counter the excessive compartmentalization that has marked some academic history in recent decades.