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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Masters of empire
    sub title: Great Lakes Indians and the making of America
  name:
    name part: McDonnell, Michael A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In 'Masters of Empire,' the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg, who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron, were equally influential. Masters of Empire charts the story of one group, the Odawa, who settled at the straits between those two lakes, a hub for trade and diplomacy throughout the vast country west of Montreal known as the 'pays d'en haut.' Highlighting the long-standing rivalries and relationships among the great Indian nations of North America, McDonnell shows how Europeans often played only a minor role in this history, and reminds us that it was native peoples who possessed intricate and far-reaching networks of commerce and kinship, of which the French and British knew little. As empire encroached upon their domain, the Anishinaabeg were often the ones doing the exploiting. By dictating terms at trading posts and frontier forts, they played a crucial part in the making of early America. Through vivid depictions, all from a native perspective, of early skirmishes, the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America. By calling attention to the Great Lakes as a crucible of culture and conflict, McDonnell reimagines the landscape of American history.
  table of contents: Old stories and new -- Recentering Michilimackinac -- Defending Anishinaabewaki -- Expansion -- The balance of power -- The first Anglo-Indian War -- The second Anglo-Indian War -- Reorienting empire -- Dependence -- Persistence in an era of Removal.
  note: Michael A. McDonnell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-mi
    geographic code: n-cn-on
  subject:
    topic: Ottawa Indians
    geographic: Huron, Lake, Region (Mich. and Ont.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: First contact with Europeans
  subject:
    geographic: Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Lakes Region (North America)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Native American
  classification: E99.O9 M36 2015
  classification: 977.4/01
  identifier: 9780809029532
  identifier: 0809029537
  identifier: 9780374714185
  identifier: 2015022331
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151008
    record change date: 20170928110504.0
    record identifier: in00003612663