Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 385 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
The _Civilization of the American Indian Series 18
Keywords:
Nordamerika, Südosten Creek
;
Führer, politischer
;
Korrespondenz
;
Quelle, ethnographische
;
McGillivray, Alexander [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Alexander McGillivray, one of the most gifted and highly educated among Indian leaders, looms large in the history of the old Southeast. As head of the Creek Nation in the critical decade following the American Revolution, he controlled an area half again as large as modern Alabama, swayed the neighboring Indian nations, and made his influence felt in the Spanish Floridas and Lousiana, and from Georgia and the Carolinas to the Mississippi. McGillivray of the Creeks, based upon a collection of his correspondence drawn from Spanish and American archives [...] was the first and remains the most significant book devoted to his dramatic career.Theodore Roosevelt said that it was the astute diplomacy of McGillivray that protected the Creeks from white aggression for more than a decade, an attribute which gained for him the name "Tallyrand of Alabama". Notable is John Walton Caughey's treatment of the man, an interpretation on the only fair basis, that of measuring the contribution made to his people, the Creeks, whose country he held inviolate during that period when thousands were pouring through the Alleghenies to reap a rich harvest of furs and homesteads in the Mississippi Valley. International rivalries in the broder country are richly illumined; British trade and intrigue are depicted; an opportunistic but vigorous Spanish policy is revealed; and the early difficulties of the United States in the first growth of its independence are made apparent. Around McGillivray centered the rivalry of three nations for contol of the West, a relentless encroachment in which the Indians had the greatest stake and lost. In this life of a Creek patriot, the case of the Creeks for the first time finds adequate expression. (Umschlagtext)
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 365-369
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