我らが野蛮な隣人：インディアン征服戦争と初期アメリカの変容 Our Savage Neighbors : How Indian War Transformed Early America

Silver, Peter

WW Norton & Co（2009/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 434 p.／サイズ 13 illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780393334906
• DDC分類 973.2

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver gives us an astonishingly vivid picture of eighteenth-century America.

Full Description

Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had rarely intermingled in Europe, and the divisions between them only grew—until, with the arrival of the Seven Years' War, thousands of country people were forced to flee from Indian attack.Silver reveals in vivid and often chilling detail how easily a rhetoric of fear can incite entire populations to violence. He shows how it was only through the shared experience of fearing and hating Indians that these Europeans, once irreconcilable, were finally united under the ideal of religious and ethnic tolerance that has since defined the best in American life.