Indians and colonists at the crossroads of empire
Subtitle: the Albany Congress of 1754
By: Timothy J. Shannon.
Contributors: New York State Historical Association.
Publisher: Cornell University Press; New York State Historical Association
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y; Cooperstown
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Iroquois Indians -- Politics and government; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789; Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century
Description: "On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments."--BOOK JACKET.

"By tracing the local, provincial, and imperial settings of the Albany Congress, Shannon's book fleshes out the events that shook Britain's rule of North America. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism controlled by a distant authority."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index.