Contact Points
Subtitle: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 5, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780807824276
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Native Americans; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; United States; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - 19th Century; United States - Colonial Period; History / Essays; 18th century; Native American; 17th century; Acculturation; Frontier and pioneer life; History; Territorial expansion; social history; multicultural; Indians; Europeans; Africans; colonial era; early republic; Seven Years' War; Pennsylvania; New York; South Carolina; Ohio Valley; Mississippi; ethnography; cultural criticism; literary criticism; gender theory; African American studies; acculturation; American history; Ohohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Stephen Aron; Gregory E. Dowd; John Mack Faragher; William B. Hart; Jill Lepore; James H. Merrell; Jane T. Merritt; Lucy Eldersveld Murphy; Elizabeth A. Perkins; Claudio Saunt
First sentence: On September 16, 1745, the German colonists Martin and Anna Mack arrived at the Susquehanna River Indian town of Shamokin to set up a Moravian mission (see Figure 1).