{"product_id":"an-infinity-of-nations-9780812222869","title":"An Infinity of Nations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Infinity of Nations tells the story of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America, focusing in particular on the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Witgen implores readers to reimagine native peoples as agents of their own destiny well into the nineteenth century. As such, \u003ci\u003eAn Infinity of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e invites scholars to reconsider crucial tenets of early American history.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and original history, \u003ci\u003eAn Infinity of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e should lead ethnohistorians to reinterrogate other North American regions for indigenous categories of social and political organization that may have been more important, and more fluid, than Europeans understood.\" * \u003ci\u003eEthnohistory\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Infinity of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold and altogether original examination of Indian-European relations, indigenous social formation, and European imperialism. Though centered on the western Great Lakes and northwestern interior in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the book travels far and wide geographically, chronologically, and thematically-to Iroquoia in the East, Hudson Bay in the North, the prairie-plains in the West, and Ohio Country in the South. Witgen also reaches deep into the past to place the events of the late 1600s in a long historical context of evolving indigenous North America, and he takes the story into the early nineteenth century, showing how, as it expanded westward, the United States collided with a long-evolving and fully formed indigenous world. A sophisticated study of a different kind of colonial world where kinship ties, mediation, small gestures, and right words signified and brought power.\" * Pekka Hämäläinen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Comanche Empire\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Long Invisibility of the Native New World\u003cbr\u003e PART I. DISCOVERY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Place and Belonging in Native North America\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Rituals of Possession and the Problems of Nation\u003cbr\u003e PART II. THE NEW WORLD\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Rebirth of Native Power and Identity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. European Interlopers and the Politics of the Native New World\u003cbr\u003e PART III. THE ILLUSION OF EMPIRE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. An Anishinaabe Warrior's World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Great Peace and Unraveling Alliances\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. SOVEREIGNTY: THE MAKING OF NORTH AMERICA'S NEW NATIONS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Counterfactual History of Indian Assimilation\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Louis Riel, Native Founding Father\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Native Terms\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405701718359,"sku":"9780812222869","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-infinity-of-nations-9780812222869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}