{"product_id":"of-one-mind-and-of-one-government-9780803295872","title":"Of One Mind and Of One Government","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOf One Mind and Of One Government\u003c\/i\u003e Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of Georgia insisted that the Creeks sign three treaties to cede tribal lands.The Creeks objected vigorously, igniting a series of border conflicts that escalated throughout the late eighteenth century and hardened partisan lines between pro-American, pro-Spanish, and pro-British Creeks and their leaders. Creek politics shifted several times through historical contingencies, self-interests, changing leadership, and debate about how to best preserve sovereignty, a process that generated national sentiment within the nascent and imperfect Creek Nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on original archival research and a revisionist interpretation, Kokomoor explores how the state of Georgia’s increasi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book contributes immensely to the field of ethnohistory in its expert examination of Creek politics in the early nineteenth century and its placement of the Creek Nation into a larger context of nation building.\"—Alex Colvin, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stunning book about an indigenous people’s valiant attempts to stand up to American expansionism through an internal political revolution—an attempt that ultimately failed, not because the Creeks could not realize a new political order but because America would not let them. It is just brilliant.”—Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi and author of \u003ci\u003eMapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The subject is vital. Nationalism encompasses all people in the early nineteenth century. The Creek National Council has been a source of contention for a long time. [The book’s] bold thesis, advocating the efficacy of the Creek National Council, will generate productive debate for years to come.”—Steven C. Hahn, professor of history at St. Olaf College and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Prologue: “A few of those belonging to the Coweta Town:” A Crisis in Creek Country\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: The End of Creek Country\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1:“All the Red People Were Now the King’s People:” Creek Partisans Emerge During the American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: “No acts of a few or part can or does bend the whole:” Georgia Treaties and Creek Partisans\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: “The Just retaliation upon the Georgians:” Partisan Creeks at War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Like “mad people . . . running crazy:” Creek Country in Crisis\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part II: Building a Creek Nation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: “By the voice of the whole of the Upper Creeks and likewise the Cussetahs:” A Stronger Nationhood\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: “I will try the experiment and I think it will succeed:” The Ascendancy of the National Council\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: “To be of one mind and of one Government:” Legitimating a Creek Nation\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part III: The Fate of the Creek Nation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: “Retarded by the Demon of politiks:” The National Council Splintering\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: “You who are afraid look to yourselves, you who are warriors, turn out:” The Red Stick War and the Future of the National Council\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: “The Government of the Creeks is not an ephemeral one:” The Creek Nation in the Removal Era\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405301096791,"sku":"9780803295872","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803295872.jpg?v=1730489624","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/of-one-mind-and-of-one-government-9780803295872","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}