Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier by Nichols, David Andrew

Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier

Red Gentlemen and White Savages argues that after the devastation of the American Revolutionary War, the main...
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Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier by Nichols, David Andrew

Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier

$164.23

Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier

$164.23
Author: David Andrew Nichols
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Red Gentlemen and White Savages argues that after the devastation of the American Revolutionary War, the main concern of Federalist and Indian leaders was not the transfer of land, but the restoration of social order on the frontier. Nichols focuses on the "middle ground" of Indian treaty conferences, where, in a series of encounters framed by the rituals of Native American diplomacy and the rules of Anglo-American gentility, U.S. officials and Woodland Indian civil chiefs built an uneasy alliance. The two groups of leaders learned that they shared common goals: both sought to control their "unruly young men"-disaffected white frontiersmen and Native American warriors-and both favored diplomacy, commerce, and established boundaries over military confrontation. Their alliance proved unstable. In their pursuit of peace and order along the frontier, both sets of leaders irreparably alienated their own followers. The Federalists lost power in 1800 to the agrarian expansionists of the Democratic-Republican Party, while civil chiefs lost influence to the leaders of new pan-Indian resistance movements. This shift in political power contributed to the outbreak of war between the United States, Britain, and Britain's Indian allies in 1812, and prepared the way for Indian Removal.



Author: David Andrew Nichols
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813927688


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/23/2009 pg. 19
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 54

About the Author

David Andrew Nichols is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Indiana State University.


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