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Chargement... The Mohicans of Stockbridge (Bison Book) (édition 1994)par Patrick Frazier
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a decent local history of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (long before Arlo Guthrie went to Alice's restaurant), but a completely inadequate American Indian history. When it comes to the Mohicans (or Mahicans), all Frazier has to offer is the unsurprising insight that they were real people, not invented by James Fenimore Cooper. Although his aim is ambitious, he ultimately fails to even attempt to interpret, say, Mohican diplomacy — he keeps calling their speeches "cryptic" — much less to deal with the onset of alcoholism and how it was resisted, a subject he seems squeamish about. Sometimes he is as patronizing as his colonial sources, e.g. describing the first Stockbridge missionary as the Indians' "shepherd." Even allowing that this book was a trail blazer for its time, I was disappointed in it. Read the book if you want to know about Stockbridge, but don't expect to learn very much about the Mohicans. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A stirring story, much more humanly complicated than any Cooper had to tell, or indeed than has been told by previous historian...Individual anecdotes Frzier has turned up might be the subjects of whole novels."--Boston Globe. "With extensive research in primary sources, Frazier's account deserves praise for its insights into the uncharted waters of eighteenth-century Indian history."--Choice "Immortalized by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans, the Mohicans Indians originated in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Frazier, a specialist in Native American studies with the Library of Congress, presents a detailed, scholarly account of these Indians; he hopes to make his readers aware of the contributions they made to American history. He covers the Mohicans' conversion to Christianity and the ramifications this had for them. He examines the various ways they interacted with the settlers, both Dutch and New Englanders, in trading, and as soldiers and victims of expansion and alcohol. Frazier has done extensive research and uses solid documentation." --Library Journal "The calm suggestiveness of The Mohicans of Stockbridge makes it a model for future studies of native peoples."--Times Literary Supplement. Patrick Frazier has been employed by the Library of Congress since 1959, most recently as a reference specialist on North American Indians. His publications include Portrait Index of North American Indians in Published Collections and a forthcoming guide to North American Indian collections in the Library of Congress. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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