White savage :
William Johnson and the invention of America /
Fintan O'Toole.
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| Summary: | A new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the Iroquois. William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved to the frontiers along the Mohawk River, where he eventually became a landowner; served as principal British intermediary with the Iroquois Confederacy; commanded British, colonial, and Iroquois forces that helped to defeat the French in 1755; and created the first groups of "rangers," who fought like Indians and led the way to the Patriots' victories in the Revolution. The key to Johnson's effectiveness was the style in which he lived as a "white savage." He had two wives, one European, one Mohawk; became fluent in Mohawk; and pioneered the use of Indians as active partners in the making of a new America.--From publisher description. |
| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from Stephen Griffin Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: x, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0374281289 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374281281 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| 250 | |a 1st American ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 402 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from Stephen Griffin Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Tears, throat, heart -- Spectres and apparitions -- Amphibians -- 'Most onruly and streperous' -- An outlandish man -- How the white man came to America -- The holy well -- Raw head and bloody bones -- The power of absence -- Force, motion and equilibrium -- The late emperor of Morocco -- Master of ceremonies -- An upstart of yesterday -- The precarious salvo of applause -- Unspeakable perplexity -- The largest pipe in America -- Miss Molly -- Rowing against the current -- Sir William and his myrmidons -- Niagara Falls -- Barbarians -- Seeds worth sowing -- 'Intoxicated with providential success' -- A stop to their very being -- What the great turtle said -- Many civil things -- An imaginary line -- The patriarch -- Negroes' handcuffs -- Irish dreamtime -- A death foretold -- The end of the world -- The afterlife. | |
| 520 | |a A new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the Iroquois. William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved to the frontiers along the Mohawk River, where he eventually became a landowner; served as principal British intermediary with the Iroquois Confederacy; commanded British, colonial, and Iroquois forces that helped to defeat the French in 1755; and created the first groups of "rangers," who fought like Indians and led the way to the Patriots' victories in the Revolution. The key to Johnson's effectiveness was the style in which he lived as a "white savage." He had two wives, one European, one Mohawk; became fluent in Mohawk; and pioneered the use of Indians as active partners in the making of a new America.--From publisher description. | ||
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