The Middle Ground
Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
Recommended by Colin Calloway, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #19 in Native American History, Ranked #39 in Canadian History
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of... more
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Colin Calloway Richard White complicates understandings of Indian and white relations by looking at how Indians and Europeans constructed a complex world that was new to all the participants. (Source)
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