This country is worth the trouble of going to war to keep it : cultures of violence in the American Southeast to 1740

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Label

This country is worth the trouble of going to war to keep it : cultures of violence in the American Southeast to 1740

Title remainder

cultures of violence in the American Southeast to 1740

Statement of responsibility

by Matthew H. Jennings

Creator

• Jennings, Matthew H

Subject

• Indians of North America -- 1st contact with Europeans
• Indians of North America -- History
• Frontier and pioneer life -- History
• Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Indians of North America -- Wars

Language

eng

Summary

"This Country is Worth the Trouble of Going to War to Keep It" presents a new way of looking at the violence that marked the colonization of the American Southeast by the English, French and Spanish. It eschews older interpretations that emphasize Native savagery, and those that replaced Indian savagery with European savagery during the 1960s and 1970s. The dissertation also moves beyond the notion that English domination of the region was inevitable. The project instead places violence at the center of the narrative, and focuses on the various cultures of violence that collided with one another in the Southeast. The peoples of the Southeast interpreted and deployed violence in a variety of ways. Prolonged contact and conflict between cultures changed cultures of violence for everyone involved, and by 1740, the violence of the English Indian trade and the English plantation had dominated the region, establishing a pattern that would play out again further to the west. Native and African cultures of violence continued to exist, but they moved in circles defined almost entirely by the English

Additional physical form

Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Cataloging source

UIU

Dissertation note

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography