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) |
Table of Contents:
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.
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.
