num_pages: 562
description: An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic
language: English
title: The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
titlecomplete: The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
genres: Native American History, American, History, Native Americans, American History, 19th Century, 18th Century, Politics, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1213
places: Great Lakes Region, North America
series: Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Albert J. Beveridge Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: PROSE Award
category: Social Sciences, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: James A. Rawley Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Albert B. Corey Prize
publisher: Cambridge University Press