{"product_id":"pacifist-prophet-9781496222862","title":"Pacifist Prophet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This intriguing biography of the Munsee leader Papunhank (1705–75) adds another rich layer to recent scholarship on the complex world between the Delaware and Ohio Rivers in the middle of the eighteenth century. . . . A very useful work for college and graduate courses.\"—D. R. Mandell, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e ushers onto the American stage a forgotten Native leader who went not on the warpath but on the peace path. The book has much to teach us about early America—and perhaps, too, about our own turbulent times.”—James H. Merrell, author of \u003ci\u003eInto the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With engaging prose, scrupulous research, and great sensitivity, Pointer treats the life of a single Native American man seeking peace, stability, family, and place in a world of migration, famine, pestilence, and war.”—Gregory Evans Dowd, author of \u003ci\u003eA Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e Richard Pointer weaves a compelling biography of the little-known Munsee and Moravian leader Papunhank, who traversed the varied religious, political, and geographic terrain from Philadelphia to the Ohio Valley in the turbulent middle decades of the eighteenth century.”—Rachel M. Wheeler, author of \u003ci\u003eTo Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction    \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Munsees’ World    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Becoming a Prophet    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Building Alliances    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Captives Together    \u003cbr\u003e 5. From Prophet to Guardian    \u003cbr\u003e 6. New Trials    \u003cbr\u003e 7. Ohio Endings    \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409233322327,"sku":"9781496222862","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496222862.jpg?v=1730506070","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pacifist-prophet-9781496222862","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}