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The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation / Colin G. Calloway.

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953- (author.).

Summary:

An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans. --Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780190652166
ISBN: 0190652160
Physical Description: xviii, 621 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-580) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Virginia's Indian country -- The Ohio Company and the Ohio Country -- Into Tanaghrisson's world -- Tanaghrisson's war -- Braddock and the limits of empire -- Frontier defense and a Cherokee alliance -- Frontier advance and a Cherokee war -- Confronting the Indian boundary -- "A good deal of land" -- The question of Indian allies -- Town destroyer -- Killing Crawford -- Building a nation on Indian land -- An Indian policy for the new nation -- Courting McGillivray -- The greatest Indian victory -- Philadelphia Indian diplomacy -- Achieving empire -- Transforming Indian lives -- A death and a non-death.