| Description |
xxvii, 414 p. : maps, plans ; 24 cm. |
| Note(S) |
Papers from a conference held in Sept. 1998 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814: an overview / David Curtis Skaggs -- French imperial policy for the Great Lakes / W. J. Eccles -- Henry Bouquet and British infantry tactics on the Ohio frontier, 1758-1764 / Charles E. Brodine, Jr. -- Microbes of war: the British Army and epidemic disease among the Ohio Indians, 1758-1765 / Matthew C. Ward -- Charles-Michel Mouet de Langlade: warrior, soldier, and intercultural "window" on the Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes / Michael A. McDonnell -- Iroquois and the Native American struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1754-1794 / Jan W. Parmenter. |
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French connection: the interior French and their role in French-British relations in the Western Great Lakes, 1760-1775 / Keith R. Widder -- "Ignorant bigots and busy rebels": The American Revolution in the Western Great Lakes / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- Fortress Detroit, 1701-1826 / Brian Leigh Dunnigan -- Rethinking the Gnadenhutten Massacre: the contest for power in the public world of the Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier / Leonard Sadosky. |
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War as cultural encounter in the Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- Liberty and power in the Old Northwest, 1765-1800 / Eric Hinderaker -- Supper and celibacy: Quaker-Seneca reflexive missions / Robert S. Cox. -- Mohawk/Oneida corridor: the geography of inland navigation across New York / Philip Lord, Jr. -- Iroquis external affairs, 1807-1815: the crisis of the new order / Carl Benn -- Firelands: land speculation and the War of 1812 / R. Douglas Hart. |
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Reluctant warriors: British North Americans and the War of 1812 / E. Jane Errington -- Forgotten allies: the loyal Shawnees and the War of 1812 / R. David Edmunds -- "To obtain command of the Lakes": the United States and the contest for Lakes Erie and Ontario, 1812-1815 / Jeff Seiken -- Meaning of the wars for the Great Lakes / Andrew R. L. Cayton. |
| ISBN |
0870135694 |
| ISBN/ISSN/Media No. |
9780870139727 (pbk.) |
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