{"product_id":"a-spirited-resistance-9780801846090","title":"A Spirited Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn evocative history of long frustration and ultimate failure, A Spirited Resistance tells of a creative people, whose insights, magic, and ritual add a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the American Indian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngrily reject[s] the Eurocentric assumptions of works that center on big-chief-hero or on isolated tribes... [and] departs from such atomized approaches to describe the attempt to combat colonialism through a religiously charged, pan-Indian militant movement... [Dowd] is sophisticated and exceptionally self-aware, recognizing how indebted even his counter-history is to European assumptions, and he tells an important and persuasive story. -- James R. Kincaid New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Power\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Indians' Great Awakening, 1745 - 1775\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Revolutionary Alliances, 1775 - 1783\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Neutrality, A World Too Narrow, 1775 - 1781\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. A Spirit of Unity, 1783 - 1794\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Republican Interlude\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Renewing Sacred Power in the North\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Conflict in the South\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Renewing Sacred Power in the South\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: A Conflict of Memory\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527609655639,"sku":"9780801846090","price":31.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801846090.jpg?v=1731868531","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-spirited-resistance-9780801846090","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}