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Book SynopsisContributions here concentrate less on the details of how European and Indian Pennsylvanians negotiated and fought than on how people constructed and reconstructed their cultures in dialogue with others. Taken together, the essays trace the collapse of whatever potential may have existed for a Pennsylvania shared by Indians and Europeans.
Trade Review“Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods is a well-conceived series of essays that together treat the themes of coexistence and racial conflict. And they do so with great sensitivity to change. The essays reveal, in vivid detail, ordinary as well as great individuals grappling with these great problems. But, perhaps because they are written by both some of the most established scholars in the field and new, rising talent, the essays are not in complete harmony with one another, they do not tell a single, seamless story. Instead, this is a book in which many sparks fly.”
—Gregory E. Dowd,University of Michigan
“This is an excellent collection of essays whose authors, a combination of seasoned scholars and neophytes, make a special effort to speak to one another. This gives the book more cohesion than one usually finds in anthologies. I highly recommend it to professional historians and advance studies of Native American and colonial history.”
—Sherry L. Smith History
“Gathering together some of the best and most recent scholarship on eighteenth-century race and cultural encounters, Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods is a testament to the dynamic state of early Pennsylvania history. Indeed, a plethora of submissions to a regional journal gave editors William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter the raw material to shape this volume around the work of thirteen historians, many of whom were nurtured in the academic community that thrives in the mid-Atlantic. This volume, then, is also a tribute to the stimulating scholarly discussions generated at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the rich archival sources found in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and other area repositories.”
—Jane T. Merritt William and Mary Quarterly
“As with most collections, the essays here vary in depth and quality, but compared to other collections, this one holds together especially well. Organized chronologically and dealing so closely with the same region and problems, the book situates the dark side of Pennsylvania’s history in an easy-to-follow narrative, with richness of detail and, remarkably, with little to no redundancy.”
—Nancy Shoemaker American Historical Review
“Every now and again—but all too rarely— a collection of essays appears that lives up to its title. The editors of Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods, William Pencak and Daniel Richter, have produced such a book.”
—Patrick Griffin Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
“The authors as well as the editors are to be congratulated for their success in pulling a diverse body of work together so effectively.”
—Nancy L. Hagedorn Journal of American Ethnic History
Table of Contents Contents
List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Daniel K. Richter and William A. Pencak
Part I: Peoples in Conversation
1. New Sweden, Natives, and Nature
Michael Dean Mackintosh
2. Colonialism and the Discursive Antecedents of Penn's Treaty with the Indians
James O Neil Spady
3. Imagining Peace in Quaker and Native American Dream Stories
Carla Gerona
4. Indian, Métis, and Euro-American Women on Multiple Frontiers
Alison Duncan Hirsch
Part II: Fragile Structures of Coexistence
5. Female Relationships and Intercultural Bonds in Moravian Indian Missions
Amy C. Schutt
6. The Death of Sawantaeny and the Problem of Justice on the Frontier
John Smolenski
7. Justice, Retribution, and the Case of John Toby
Louis M. Waddell
8. The Diplomatic Career of Canasatego
William A. Starna
Part III: Toward a White Pennsylvania
9. Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase
Steven C. Harper
10. Squatters, Indians, Proprietary Government, and Land in the Susquehanna Valley
David L. Preston
11. Metonymy, Violence, Patriarchy, and the Paxton Boys
Krista Camenzind
12. "Real" Indians, "White" Indians, and the Contest for the Wyoming Valley
Paul Moyer
13. Whiteness and Warfare on a Revolutionary Frontier
Gregory T. Knouff
Afterword: James H. Merrell
Abbreviations
Notes
Contributors
Index
