دانلود کتاب The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744

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Contents
Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Technical Note
Abbreviations
Part One. Transitory Condominium
1. Distinctions in Deed and Thought
2. An Empire of Convenience
Conquest by decree
The myth\'s revival
Contradictory traditions
3. A Mixing of Peoples
Habitations and highways
Division by watersheds
The Iroquois Five Nations
Nation and tribe
The Iroquois League
Champlain\'s attacks
Iroquois strategy
4. An Iron Dutch Chain
Dutch trade
Dutch war
Dutch-Mohawk alliance
5. Logistics of Intersocietal Commerce
The inclusive frontier
Commodity exchange between societies
The roles of merchants
Traders\' travels
Intersocietal partnerships
The southern frontier
Northern trading systems
The importance of firearms
Accommodation with violence
6. The Iroquoian “Beaver Wars”
Tribal competition
French policies
Disastrous effects of French missions
Iroquois initiatives and French repulses
The founding of Montreal
Mohawk aims
The Iroquois “melting pot”
Jogues\'s mission and assassination
Susquebannock intervention
Assault on Huronia
Downfall of Huron allies
Resistance of eastern tribes
Mohawk-Onondaga friction
Renewed war in New Netherland
A turning point
7. Odd Man Out
Southward from Iroquoia
Susquehannocks and Delawares
Maryland\'s defeat by Susquehannocks and New Sweden
Mohawk war and Maryland peace
Dutch conquest of New Sweden
Dutch policies and practices
English harassment of New Netherland
Susquehannock alliance with Maryland
Iroquois defeats
Duke of York’s conquest of New Netherland
French destruction of Mohawk towns
New York inherits New Netherlands roles
Iroquois on the defensive
Maryland\'s assaults on Delaware
Maryland “invites” the Susquehannocks to the Potomac
An illusion of peace
Part Two. Warriors
8. A Silver English Chain
Virginia and Maryland attack the Susquehannocks
Andros\'s first Covenant Chain treaty for New England
Andros\'s approaches to the Susquehannocks
Maryland\'s threat to Delaware Bay
Andros\'s response
Maryland\'s “peace” strategy
Disposition of the Susquehannocks
Andros disciplines Maryland\'s envoy
Role of the Delawares
Iroquois legalism
Disappearance of the Susquehannocks
Baltimore\'s use of the treaty
Resurgence of the Mohawks
“Corlaer1 s” silver chain
Susquehannock revenge
Maryland\'s frustrations
9. Expansion and Reaction
Frontenac and La Salle
Senecas frustrated in the Illinois country
Mohawks divided by mission
Livingston and Dongan
La Barre
Lord Howard\'s treaty
Onondaga independence
La Barrels humiliation
10. “They flourish and we decrease.”
Denonville
Dongaris expansionism
Denonville’s attack
Dongan and Iroquois “subjects\'’
Brethren or children?
Effects of the Glorious Revolution
Iroquois-French War
Shawnees come east
Shawnees and Iroquois
Minisink independence
Fletcher\'s friction with the Iroquois
Delaware independence
Iroquois losses
Peace for the English, war for the Iroquois
The Iroquois become a barrier
Livingston\'s “deedr
11. Permutations
Part Three. Diplomats
12. A Link Lost
Penn\'s plans
The Iroquois and the Susquehanna
Trade on the Schuylkill
Turncoat coureurs de bois
Penn\'s treaty with the Susquehannock / Conestogas
Tentative dealings with the Iroquois
Penn\'s personality and status
Penn\'s policies toward Indians
James Logan
13. Mending Chain
The warriors\' path southward
Trade and hospitality at the Susquehanna
Logan as merchant
Botched plan to invade Canada
Tuscarora negotiations
Decanisoras secret treaty
Canadian invasion bungled again
Hospitality for Tuscaroras and Mennonites
Delawares and Iroquois
Encroachment at Conestoga
Alienation of Chartier\'s Shawnees
Markets and immigrants
14. A Vise Made in Europe
Keith versus Logan
t William Penn\'s contested inheritance
Virginia complains about the warriors\' path
Perils at Conestoga
A frontier line proposed
Iroquois soundings about trade
Conflicts of interest
Trade between Montreal and Albany
English imperialists\' new western strategy
15. Desperation in Iroquoia
Iroquois status on the Susquehanna
The murder of Sawantaeny
Breach of the Susquehanna boundary
Spotswood\'s ambiguous frontier line
Iroquois responsibility for the other tribes
The unsuppressible Montreal-Albany trade
Competition in fort building
Delawares and Sbawnees reject Iroquois proposals for war
“ Women ” and the west
General Indian unrest
Logan\'s treaties
Shawnee flight
Iroquois losses
16. A New Fire
Logan\'s straits
Reduction of the Tulpehockens
New proposals to the Iroquois
The Penns\' debts
Penns sell Indian lands
Nutimus resists
The Iroquois become police
The Six Nations\' price
17. Chain into Fetters
Delaware land tenure
Cessions to Pennsylvania
The lands of Nutimus
The “ancient deed”
Rehearsal for a Walk
A real estate lottery
More Shawnees flee, and the Mohawks grumble
A confidence game and the Walk
Anger, threats, and violence
Conquest of the eastern Delawares
18. Summit and Slope
Settlers: Scotch-Irish and Moravian
The turbulent Ohio country
Mohawk travail
Virginians attack an Iroquois party
Treaty at Lancaster
Canasatego\'s traditionary history
Rights of conquest, again
Iroquois cessions
Worm-eaten triumph
Onondaga\'s about-face
Privilege withdrawn
19. Conflict and Accommodation
Indian collaboration with Europeans
The League and the Chain
New York\'s dual center
Tribal insubordination
Functions of Treaties
Ambiguity of the Chain
Our side and their side
Appendices
A. A council at Onondaga, as reported by Conrad Weiser in 1743
B. Documents of the Walking Purchase
C. On the undoing of history
Bibliography
Index