No useless mouth : waging war and fighting hunger in the American Revolution /
In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to as...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. This text argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501716133 1501716131 |