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Chargement... Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West (édition 2022)par Anne F. Hyde (Auteur)
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"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia River. Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular, Anne F. Hyde's pathbreaking history follows five mixed-descent families whose lives were inscribed by history: corporate battles over control of the fur trade, the extension of American power into the West, the ravages of imported disease, the violence triggered by Indian removal, the incessant battles for land with encroaching American settlement, and the mix of opportunity and disaster in post-Civil War reservations and allotment. Occupying a dangerous intermediate ground in a continent of conflict, mixed-descent families were pivotal in the events that made the West"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Apart from that, I would have preferred to see a proper bibliography, though that might not be the author's decision. Less good is that when Hyde cites documents from the U.S. National Archives she is somewhat inconsistent in doing so. You might say that this is another case where I'm being over-critical, but one of the annoyances of my old job were bad citations, and I expect better from a full professor; particularly when the agency offers a 30-page pamphlet on how to consistently explain what records one has used. ( )